Overview
- Novel studies of foodways and cuisine in the Andes from multiple anthropological perspectives
- New insights into pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary food practices in Andean South America
- Diverse perspectives on Andean food practices through time and in different geographic settings
Part of the book series: The Latin American Studies Book Series (LASBS)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Pre-Columbian Foods and Cultures: Andean Culinary and Ritual Practices
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Andean Foodways, Indigenous Customs, and Transformations among Colonial and Contemporary Andean Cultures
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About this book
There is widespread acknowledgement among anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnobotanists, as well as researchers in related disciplines that specific foods and cuisines are linked very strongly to the formation and maintenance of cultural identity and ethnicity. Strong associations of foodways with culture are particularly characteristic of South American Andean cultures. Food and drink convey complex social and cultural meanings that can provide insights into regional interactions, social complexity, cultural hybridization, and ethnogenesis. This edited volume presents novel and creative anthropological, archaeological, historical, and iconographic research on Andean food and culture from diverse temporal periods and spatial settings.
The breadth and scope of the contributions provides original insights into a diversity of topics, such as the role of food in Andean political economies, the transformation of foodways and cuisines through time, and ancient iconographic representations of plants and animals that were used as food. Thus, this volume is distinguished from most of the published literature in that specific foods, cuisines, and culinary practices are the primary subject matter through which aspects of Andean culture are interpreted.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
As a research associate with The Field Museum in Chicago (IL, USA) for ten years, he researched and published on several of the museum’s various collections. John E. Staller has identified the only known endemic variety of maize in the world specifically and exclusively adapted to the Copacabana Peninsula in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia. He authored and edited numerous publications on maize (Zea mays L.) and the biogeography of cultivated plantsin Latin America. This includes the volume “Pre-Columbian Landscapes of Creation and Origin” (978-0-387-76909-7) which he edited in 2008, the authored volume “Maize Cobs and Cultures: History of Zea mays L.” in 2010 and the volume “Pre-Columbian Foodways” which he edited with Michael Carrasco in 2010 (all published by Springer).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Andean Foodways
Book Subtitle: Pre-Columbian, Colonial, and Contemporary Food and Culture
Editors: John E. Staller
Series Title: The Latin American Studies Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51629-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51628-4Published: 02 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51631-4Published: 03 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51629-1Published: 01 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2366-3421
Series E-ISSN: 2366-343X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 424
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 102 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Geography, Latin American Culture, Food Science, Archaeology, History, general, Ethnography