FOOD AND CULTURE
Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
Algert S; Brzezinski E; Ellison TH (1998) Mexican American Food Practices,
Customs, and Holidays. American Dietetic Association, American
Diabetes
Association [North America; Middle America; United States; Mexico; Mexican
Americans].![]()
Anderson RK; Calvo J; Serrano G, et al. (1946) A Study of the Nutritional Status and Food Habits of Otomi Indians in the Mezquital Valley of Mexico. American Journal of Public Health. 36:883-903 [foodways; nutrition; Mexico; Otomi].
Andrews J (1993) Diffusion of the Mesoamerican Food Complex to Southeastern
Europe. Geographical Review. 83:194-204 [history; plant
introduction; food use; capsicum pepper; Central America; Europe; Balkans;
Portugal; Spain].
Arnold PP (1999) Eating Landscape: Aztec and European Occupation of Tlalocan.
University of Colorado Press [archaeology; ritual; Central America].![]()
Baer R (1998) Cooking -- and Coping -- among the Cacti: Diet, Nutrition and
Available Income in Northwestern Mexico. Gordon and Breach [diet; food choice;
economic factors; Middle America; Mexico; Senora].![]()
Boucher PP (1992) Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs [history;
cannibalism; Caribbean].![]()
Bourke JG (1885) The Urine Dance of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico [food use; ritual; North American Indian; Zuni].
Bourke JG (1895) The Folk Foods of the Rio Grande Valley and of Northern Mexico. Journal of American Folklore. 8:41-71 [ethnic foods; North America; Southwestern United States; Mexico].
Brandes S (1997) Sugar, Colonialism, and Death: On the Origins of Mexico's Day of the Dead. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 39:270-299 [history; foodstuffs; meaning; ritual; Mexico].
Bruman HJ (2000) Alcohol in Ancient Mexico. University of Utah Press [food use; mescal; wines; native traditions; ritual; history; medicine; Mesoamerica; Mexico].
Chavez N; Sha L; Persky V, et al. (1994) Effects of Length of Stay on
Food Group Intake in Mexican American and Puerto Rican Women.
Journal of
Nutritional Education. 26:79-86 [food habit change; North America;
Caribbean; United States; Puerto Rico; Mexican Americans; Puerto Ricans].
Coe SD (1994) America's First Cuisines. University of Texas Press
[prehistory; history; eating habits; food systems; Central America; Mexico;
South America; Aztec; Maya; Inca].![]()
Cohen RJ; Huddix K; Hortado E, et al. (1995) Maternal Activity Budgets: Feasibility of Exclusive Breastfeeding for Six Months among Urban Women in Honduras. Social Science and Medicine. 41:527-536 [infant feeding; time allocation; Central America].
Cosminsky S (1975) The Changing Food and Medical Beliefs and Practices in a Guatemalan Community. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 4:183-191 [change; food beliefs; Central America; Guatemala].
Currier RL (1966) The Hot-Cold Syndrome and Symbolic Balance in Mexican and Spanish American Folk Medicine. Ethnology. 5:251-263 [folk classification; medicine; Mexico; Central America].
De Benitez AM (1974) Pre-Hispanic Cooking. Ediciones Euroamericana Klaus
Thiele [prehistory; cookery; Latin America; Mexico].![]()
DeWalt K (1983) Nutrition Stategies and Agricultural Change in a Mexican
Community. University of Michigan Press [modernization and change; Middle
America; Mexico].![]()
DeWalt K; Pelto G (1977) Food Use and Household Ecology in a Mexican
Community. in TK Fitzgerald (ed) Nutrition and Anthropology in Action.
van Gorcum, pp. 70-93 [food use; household; ecology; social relations; Mexico].![]()
DeWalt KW (1980) Impact of Agricultural Development on Child Nutrition in Tabasco, Mexico. Medical Anthropology. 4:55-78- [child nutrition; economic change; Latin America; Mexico].
Dewey K (1989) Nutrition and the Commoditization of Foods in Latin American and the Caribbean. Social Science and Medicine. 28:415-424 [commercialization and change; nutrition; Latin America; Caribbean].
Dewey KG (1980) Impact of Agricultural Development on Child Nutrition in Tabasco, Mexico. Medical Anthropology. 5:22-43 [food habit change; child nutrition; Mexico].
Dewey KG (1989) Nutrition and the Commoditization of Food Systems in Latin American and the Caribbean. Social Science and Medicine. 28:415-424 [food habit change; food system; nutrition; Latin America; Caribbean].
Dirks R (1987) The Black Saturnalia. University of Florida Presses [history;
slave society; foodways; diet; nutrition; hunger; social life; Caribbean; West
Indies].![]()
Edelman M (1987) From Costa Rican Pasture to North American Hamburger. in M
Harris; E Ross (eds) Food and Evolution. Temple University Press, pp.
541-562 [food system; ecology; food specie; ground beef; Central America; North
America; Costa Rica].![]()
Few M (2005) Chocolate, Sex, and Disorderly Women in Late-Seventeenth- and Early-Eighteenth-Century Guatemala. Ethnohistory. 52:673-687 [history; eighteenth century; beverage; women; ritual; conflict; magic; ceremonial power; Central America; Guatemala].
Four Winds Food S (2002) Population Profile: Puerto Ricans. Fork, Fingers, and Chopsticks. VI:3-6 [food habits; Caribbean; Puerto Rico; North America].
Furst P (1978) Spirulina. Human Nature. 1:60-65 [food species; algae; prehistory; history; Mexico; Aztec].
Galler J; Ramsey F; Weiskopf-Bock S (1998) Infant Feeding Practices in Barbados Predict Later Growth. The Journal of Nutrition. 128:1328- [infant nutrition; Caribbean; Barbados].
Greiner T; Latham M (1981) Factors Associated with Malnutrition in the Children of Western Jamaica. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 10:135-142 [nutritional disease; children; Caribbean; Jamaica].
Handler JS; Aufderheide AC; Corruccini RS (1986) Lead Content and Poisoning in Barbados Slaves. Social Science History. 10:399-425 [history; slave diet and disease; lead poisoning; Caribbean; Barbados].
Harner M (1977) The Ecological Basis for Aztec Sacrifice. American Ethnologist. 4:117-135 [cannibalism; prehistory; history; ecology; Mexico; Aztec].
Himmelgreen D., Romero Daza N., Vega M., et al. 2006. The Tourist Season Goes Down but Not the Prices. Tourism and Food Insecurity in Rural Costa Rica. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 45:295-321. [dietary acculturation; poverty; health; Central America]
Houston LM. (2005) Food Culture in the Caribbean.
Greenwood. [foods; foodways; Caribbean]
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Jarvenpa R (1999) Bush Food/Country Food/Town Food: Power, Meaning and
Dietary Transformatio in Three Societies. in E Museo Nacional de Antropologia
(ed) Alimentacion Y Cultura Actas Del Congreso Internacional, Vol Ii 1998.
La Val de Onsera, pp. 729-748- [change; social meaning; North American Indians;
Chipewyan (Dene); Europe; Finland; Central America; Costa Rica; Terraba].![]()
Jerome N (1975) Flavor Preferences and Food Patterns of Selected U S and Caribbean Blacks. Food Technology. 29:46-51 [preference; flavor; food habits; North America; United States; Caribbean].
Johannessen S; Hastorf CA (1994) Corn and Culture in the Prehistoric New
World. West View Press [collected papers; prehistory; food use; Central America;
North America; South America].![]()
Jones AR (1985) Diet Change and Human Population at Indian Creek, Antigua. American Antiquity. 50:518-536 [prehistory; Caribbean].
Kaiser L; Dewey K (1991) Migration, Cash Cropping and Subsistence Agriculture: Relationship to Household Food Expenditures in Rural Mexico. Social Science and Medicine. 33:1113-1126 [food habits; ecology; Middle America; Mexico].
Kaiser L, Dewey K. 1991. Household Economic Strategies, Food Resource Allocation, and Intrahousehold Patterns of Dietary Intake in Rural Mexico. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 27:123-145-. [household; food sharing; distribution (allocation); dietary intake; Middle America; Mexico]
Kaplan L (1973) Ethnobotanical and Nutritional Factors in the Domestication
of American Beans. in CL Smith (ed) Man and His Foods: The
Ethnobotany of
Nutrition; Contemporary, Primitive, and Prehistoric Non-European Diets.
University of Alabama Press, pp. 75-85 [collected papers; food specie;
domestication; Central America].
Kearney M (1972) The Winds of Ixtepeji. New York [foodways; diet; food
sharing; drinking patterns; Mexico; Zapotec].![]()
Keegan WF (2000) The Caribbean, Including Northern South America and Lowland
Central America: Early History. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas
(eds) The Cambridge
World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1260-1278 [history;
Caribbean; Central America; South America; Taino; Lucayan; African-Caribbean;
Garifuna].![]()
Kraig B (1999) Food for the Ancestors. in J Thompson ; r B. (eds). PBS Home
Video [holiday; feast; religion; Mexico].![]()
Krause VM; Kuhnlein HV; López-Palacios CY, et al. (1993) Preparation Effects on Tortilla Mineral Content in Guatemala. Archivos latinoamericanos de nutricion. 43:73-77 [food processing; maize; Central America; Indian peoples].
LeCount LJ (2001) Like Water for Chocolate: Feasting and Political Ritual among the Late Classic Maya at Xunantunich, Belize. American Anthropologist. 103:935-953 [food and festival; prehistory; Central America].
Logan M (1972) Humoral Folk Medicine: A Potential Aid in Controlling Pellagra
in Mexico. Ethnomedizin. 1:397-411 [malnutrition; diet and
disease; pellagra; North America; Mexico].
Long-Solis J; Vargas LA (2004) Food Culture in Mexico. Greenwood Press
[foodstuffs; foodways; history; change; Mexico].![]()
Marchione TJ (1977) Food and Nutrition in Self-Reliant National Development: The Impact on Child Nutrition of Jamaican Government Policy. Medical Anthropology. 1:57-59 [child nutrition; government policy; Caribbean; Jamiaca].
Marchione TJ (1980) Factors Associated with Malnutrition in the Children of
Western Jamaica. in NW Jerome; RC Kandel; GH Pelto (eds) Nutritional
Anthropology. Redgrave [malnutrition; children; Caribbean; Jamaica].![]()
Martorell R (1975) Acute Morbidity and Physical Growth in Rural Guatemalan Children. American Journal of Diseases of Children. 129:1296-1301 [child nutrition; nutritional deficiency and disease; Central America; Guatemala].
Mathews H (1983) Context-Specific Variation in Humoral Classification. American Anthropologist. 85:826-847 [food classification; humoral (hot-cold) system; North America; Mexico].
May J; McCellan D (1972) The Ecology of Malnutrition in Mexico and Central America. Hafner [nutritional disease; Central America; Mexico].
McClelland DA (1992) Good as Gold: Foods the Americas Gave the World.
Smithsonian [history; foodstuffs; diffusion; Central America; North America;
South America].![]()
McLeod J. 1984. Food Consumption and Poverty in Rural Jamaica. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 14:297-306 [undernutrition; hunger; poverty; Caribbean; Jamaica].
Messer E (1977) The Ecology of a Vegetarian Diet in a Modernizing Mexican
Community. in TK Fitzgerald (ed) Nutrition and Anthropology in Action
[ecology; vegetarian; Mexico].![]()
Messer E (1981) Hot-Cold Classification: Theoretical and Practical Implications of a Mexican Study. Social Science Medicine. 15 B:133-145 [classification; hot-cold; Mexico].
Messer E (1987) The Hot and Cold in Mesoamerican Indigenous and Hispanicized Thought. Social Science and Medicine. 25:346-399 [food classification; hot and cold categories; Central America; Mexico; Europe].
Myers RA (1984) Island Carib Cannibalism. Niewe West-indische Gids. 158:147-184 [cannibalism; Caribbean; Island Carib].
Nietschmann B (1974) When the Turtle Collapses, the World Ends. Natural History. 83:34-42 [food use; ecology; Central America; Miskito Indians].
O'Brian R (2001) Eating on the Job: Diet and Work among Urban and Rural Maya
Women. Nutritional Anthropology. 24:9-14 [urbanization; dietary
change; Central America; Mexico; Chiapas; Maya].
Ochoa EC (2000) Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food since 1910.
Scholarly Resources [food system; Mexico].![]()
Ortiz de Montellano B (1990) Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition
[prehistory; history; cannibalism; Mexico; Aztec].![]()
Oster G; Oster S (1985) The Great Breadfruit Scheme. Natural History. 94:35-41 [food use; history; Caribbean].
Pelto G (1987) Social Class and Diet in Contemporary Mexico. in M Harris; E
Ross (eds) Food and Evolution. Temple University Press, pp. 517-540-
[social organization; class and diet; Middle America; Mexico].![]()
Pilcher J (1996) Tamales or Timbales: Cuisine and the Formation of Mexican
Nation Identity. Americas. 53:2 [social identity; Latin America;
Mexico].
Pilcher J (1998) Que Vivan Los Tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican
Identity. University of New Mexico Press [history; social identity (gender,
class, race); North America; Mexico].![]()
Pilcher JM (2000) The Caribbean from 1942 to the Present. in KF Kiple; KC
Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University
Press, pp. 1278-1288 [history; diet and disease; slave diet; modern diet;
Caribbean; African-Caribbean; Asian-Caribbean].![]()
Price R (1991) Subsistence on the Plantation Periphery: Crops, Cooking, and Labour among Eighteenth-Century Suriname Maroons. Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Comparative Studies. 12 (special issue):107-127 [history; food habits; Caribbean; South America].
Rivera J.A. 2002. Epidemiological and Nutritional Transition in Mexico: Rapid Increase of Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases and Obesity. Public Health Nutrition 5:113-122. [dietary change; disease; diabetes mellitus; acute myocardial infarction; hypertension; obesity; mortality trends]
Rodriguez-Ojea A. 2002. The Nutrition Transition in Cuba in the Nineties: An Overview. Public Health Nutrition 5:129-133. [dietary change; obesity; physical activity; body composition; Caribbean]
Romero-Gwynn E; Gwynn D; Masarrat D (2000) Dietary Patterns and Acculturation among Immigrants from El Salavador. Nutrition Today. 35:233- [acculturation; Central America; North America; El Salvador; United States; Salavadorian Americans].
Sahlins M (1978) Culture as Protein and Profit. The New York Review of Books. 25:45-53- [taboo; symbolism; prehistory; cannibalism; Mexico; Aztec].
Salvador ML (1987) Food for the Holy Ghost: Ritual Exchange in Azorean Festivals. in A Falassi (ed) Time out of Time: Essays on the Festival. University of New Mexico Press, pp. 244-260 [food in ritual; festival; religion; symbol and meaning; Europe; Africa; Azores].
Samuda P; Cook R; Fitzroy H (1998) Indentify Foods Commonly Consumed by the
Jamaican Population: The Focus Group Approach. Internation Journal of Food
Sciences and Nutrition. 48 [dietary patterns; methodology; focus groups;
Caribbean; Jamaica].
Sanjur D (1994) Hispanic Foodways, Nutrition, and Health. Allyn and Bacon
[food habits; nutrition; Caribbean; North American; Puerto Rico:
Mexican-Americans].![]()
Scrimshaw N (1995) Community-Based Longitudinal Nutrition and Health Studies: Classical Examples from Guatemala, Haiti, and Mexico. United Nations University Food and Nutrition Program [nutritional patterns; change; Central America; Caribbean; Guatemala; Haiti; Mexico].
Scrimshaw N; Cosminsky S (1991) The Impact of Health on Women's Food Procurement Strategies on a Guatemalan Plantation. in A Sharman; J Theophano; K Curtis; E Messer (eds) Diet and Domestic Life in Society. Temple University Press, pp. 61-30 [women; diet; health and disease; Central America; Guatemala].
Sellers S (1984) Diet Patterns and Nutritional Intake in a Costa Rican Community. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 14:297-306 [dietary and nutritional intake; Central America; Costa Rica].
Soluri J. 2005. Banana Cultures: Agriculture,
Consumption, & Environmental Change in Honduras & the United States.
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America]![]()
Stansbury JP; Barrios RE; Rojas C, et al. (2000) After the Hurricane: Child Nutrition in Honduran Reconstruction. Nutritional Anthropology. 24:3-7 [child nutrition, malnutrition; disaster; Central America; Honduras].
Stonich S (1991) The Political Economy of Environmental Destruction: Food
Security in Southern Honduras. in S Whiteford; AE Ferguson (eds) Harvest of
Want: Hunger and Food Security in Central America and Mexico. Westview, pp.
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Super JC (1988) Food, Conquest, and Colonization in 16th Century Spanish
America. University of New Mexico Press [history; food habit change; Central
America; South America].![]()
Super JC; Vargas LA (2000) Mexico and Highland Central America. in KF Kiple;
KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge
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Super JC; Wright TC (1985) Food, Politics, and Society in Latin America.
University of Nebraska Press [food system; South America; Central America;
Mexico].![]()
Taylor D (1950) The Meaning of Dietary and Occupational Restrictions among the Island Carib. American Anthropologist. 52:243-249 [taboo; couvade; Caribbean; Island Carib].
Tejada C (1979) Nutrition and Feeding Practices of the Maya in Central
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Timmer A. 2006. Competing Discourses on the Political Economy of Hunger. Nutritional Anthropology 27-28:1-13. [hunger; child malnutrition; government; poverty; Central America; Nicaragua ]
Tucker K; Sanjur D (1988) Maternal Employment and Child Nutrition in Panama. Social Science and Medicine. 26:605-612 [child nutrition; Central America; Panama].
Vargas LA (1990) Old and New Transitions and Nutrition in Mexico. in AC
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meanings; change; Mexico].![]()
Vargas LA; Casillas LE (1992) Diet and Foodways in Mexico City. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 27:235-247 [diet; eating patterns; food preparation; nutrition; urban areas; Mexico].
Vogt EZ (1976) Tortillas for the Gods: A Symbolic Analysis of Zinacanteco
Rituals. Harvard University Press [ritual; food symbols and meanings; Latin
America; Mexico; Maya; Zincanteco].![]()
Watts D (1984) Cycles of Famine in Islands of Plenty: The Case of the
Colonial West Indies in the Pre-Emancipation Period. in B Currey; G Hugo (eds)
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Caribbean].
Wilk R (2006) Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from
Buccaners to Ecotourists. Berg [history; globalization; Central America;
Belize].![]()
Wilk RR (1999) "Real Belizean Food": Building Local Identity in the Transnational Caribbean. American Anthropologist. 101:244-255 [social relations; colonialism; class; modernization; Caribbean; Belize].
Wing E (1978) Use of Dogs for Food: An Adaptation to the Coastal Environment. in BL Stark; B Voorhies (eds) Prehistoric Coastal Adaptations: The Economy and Ecology of Maritime Middle America. Academic Press, pp. 29-41 [prehistory; food specie; dog; Central America].
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