Tucson : the University of Arizona Press, [2014]
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-295) and index.
• Introduction / Gretchen Pierce and Áurea Toxqui — Part 1. The pre-Hispanic and colonial periods — Chapter 1. A glass for the gods and a gift to my neighbor: the importance of alcohol in the pre-Columbian Andes / Justin Jennings — Chapter 2. Liquid fire: alcohol, identity, and social hierarchy in colonial Brazil / Joao Azevedo Fernandes — Chapter 3. Drunkenness and interpersonal violence in colonial Michoacan / Aaron Althouse — Part 2. The long nineteenth century (1820s-1930) — Chapter 4. Wine country: the vineyard as national space in nineteenth-century Argentina / Nancy Hanway — Chapter 5. Breadwinners or entrepreneurs?: women’s involvement in the Pulquería world of late nineteenth-century Mexico City, 1850-1910 / Áurea Toxqui — Chapter 6. Drunks and dictators: inebriation’s gendered, ethnic, and class components in Guatemala, 1898-1944 / David Carey, Jr. — Part 3. The twentieth and twenty-first centuries — Chapter 7. Pulqueros, cerveceros, and mezcaleros: small alcohol producers and popular resistance to Mexico’s anti-alcohol campaigns 1910-1940 / Gretchen Pierce — Chapter 8. Tequila sauza and the redemption of Mexico’s vital fluids, 1873-1970 / José Orozco — Chapter 9. Essence and identity: transformations in Argentine wine, 1880-2010 / Steve Stein — Chapter 10. Of chicha, majas, and mingas: hard apple cider and local solidarity in twenty-first century rural southern Chile / Anton Daughters.
• Alcohol in Latin America is the first interdisciplinary study to examine the historic role of alcohol across Latin America and over a broad time span. Six locations–the Andean region, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, and Mexico–are seen through the disciplines of anthropology, archaeology, art history, ethnohistory, history, and literature — Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Drinking of alcoholic beverages — Latin America — History.
• Alcoholic beverages — Social aspects — Latin America — History.
• Alcoholic beverage industry — Social aspects — Latin America — History.
• Alcoholism — Social aspects — Latin America — History.
• Temperance — Latin America — History.

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