{"product_id":"substance-and-seduction-stacey-schwartzkopf-9781477313879","title":"Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica","description":"\u003cp\u003eChocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms--these 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on ingestible substances as a group, which has not been done before in the scholarly literature, the chapters in \u003ci\u003eSubstance and Seduction\u003c\/i\u003e trace three key links between colonization and commodification. First, as substances that were taken into the bodies of both colonizers and colonized, these foods and drugs participated in unexpected connections among sites of production and consumption; racial and ethnic categories; and free, forced, and enslaved labor regimes. Second, as commodities developed in the long transition from mercantile to modern capitalism, each substance in some way drew its enduring power from its ability to seduce: to stimulate bodies; to alter minds; to mark class, social, and ethnic boundaries; and to generate wealth. Finally, as objects of scholarly inquiry, each substance rewards interdisciplinary approaches that balance the considerations of pleasure and profit, materiality and morality, and culture and political economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stacey Schwartzkopf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477313877\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477313879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/20\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Stacey Schwartzkopf","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985709859071,"sku":"9781477313879","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df02aff6-2730-4c98-9ce7-7d7b494f1c96.jpg?v=1683279108","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/substance-and-seduction-stacey-schwartzkopf-9781477313879","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}