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Description of  Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica (The William & Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere)

Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushroomsthese seductive substances have been a nexus of desire for both pleasure and profit in Mesoamerica since colonial times. But how did these substances seduce? And when and how did they come to be desired and then demanded, even by those who had never encountered them before? The contributors to this volume explore these questions across a range of times, places, and peoples to discover how the individual pleasures of consumption were shaped by social, cultural, economic, and political forces. Read more