Description
Book SynopsisMaking a foundational contribution to Mesoamerican studies, this book explores Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptures, as well as indigenous and colonial Spanish texts, to offer the first integrated study of food and ritual in Aztec art.
Trade Review"
Sacred Consumption vividly evokes the flavors of the Aztec feasts, fixing our attention—and, surely, the attention of future research—upon a fugitive but essential aspect of Precolumbian religion." * caa.reviews *
"[An] immensely useful resource." * Renaissance Quarterly *
"Morán...has produced an insight-filled, delectable contemplation of an amazing panoply of cultural practices...With ritual as the overarching theme, Morán presents Aztec food in all its varied and sun-dried dimensions." * Choice *
"Morán answers important questions about Aztec food and religion…[she] skillfully analyses indigenous concepts around ancient food consumption and its envelopment within ritual practices, from rites of passage to celebratory feasts, in tandem with Aztec visual culture." * Bulletin of Latin American Research *
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Sacred Consumption] is the first systematic, in-depth treatment of the interwoven roles of food and ritual in Aztec life…Morán has made available to us a welcome addition to the literature on a long-neglected topic." * The Americas *
"[
Sacred Consumption] is an ambitious evaluation of the role of food, feasting, and fasting in Aztec rituals…Morán's book makes a novel and intriguing contribution to the field through its nuanced study of food in Aztec ritual." * Ethnohistory *
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Ceremonial Consumption in Everyday Life
- Chapter 2. Food in Aztec Public Ritual
- Chapter 3. Aztec Myths, Cosmovision, and Food
- Chapter 4. Food and Ritual after the Conquest
- Epilogue. Some Final Thoughts on Food
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
