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View article: Bird species outside of their known distribution ranges in southern Namibia
Bird species outside of their known distribution ranges in southern Namibia Open
Out-of-range sightings of five bird species at the Alte Kalköfen Bird Observatory in southern Namibia are reported on here: Quail Finch Ortygospiza atricollis, Chestnut Weaver Ploceus rubiginosus, Green Woodhoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus, Em…
View article: How to Teach an <i>AHR</i> Article
How to Teach an <i>AHR</i> Article Open
Rebecca Earle offers a lesson plan for teaching her own 2010 AHR article "'If You Eat Their Food …': Diets and Bodies in Early Colonial Spanish America," which is among the journal's all-time most downloaded articles.Her module helps stude…
View article: Tasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature. Gitanjali G. Shahani. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. xii + 204 pp. $39.95.
Tasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature. Gitanjali G. Shahani. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. xii + 204 pp. $39.95. Open
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View article: Across Time, Space, and Matter
Across Time, Space, and Matter Open
Research Article| August 01 2022 Across Time, Space, and Matter: A Panel Discussion on Food in the Hispanic World H. Rosi Song, H. Rosi Song H. Rosi Song is a professor of Hispanic studies at Durham University and author of Lost in Transit…
View article: Food, Colonialism and the Quantum of Happiness1
Food, Colonialism and the Quantum of Happiness1 Open
The story of the mutiny on the Bounty is well known. Captain Bligh's loss of his vessel and the mutineers' subsequent misadventures are literally the stuff of Hollywood. Many people also know that the mutiny was prompted in part by the dem…
View article: Potatoes, Populations, and States
Potatoes, Populations, and States Open
Today, dietary guidelines, healthy-eating pyramids, and other nutritional advice are a familiar and expected feature of governance. It was not always so. What we eat has not always been of such interest to the state. That people ate was of…
View article: Immigrant Potatoes
Immigrant Potatoes Open
The potato has nourished ordinary people in the Americas for millennia. Villagers along the Andes grew a great variety of potatoes, which were used in diverse ways to provide year-round nourishment. The Europeans who reached South America'…
View article: Enlightened Potatoes
Enlightened Potatoes Open
The potato's political invisibility ended in the eighteenth century, when it attained unprecedented political prominence. The nourishing qualities that had once drawn criticism began to be viewed more positively. As a result, the potato be…
View article: Feeding the People
Feeding the People Open
Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Feeding the People traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes to everywhere. The potato's global histo…
View article: <i>Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America</i>. Edited by Zeb Tortoricci (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2016) 256 pp. $70.00 cloth $29.95 paper
<i>Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America</i>. Edited by Zeb Tortoricci (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2016) 256 pp. $70.00 cloth $29.95 paper Open
The saddest of the many sad stories explored in this collection is the case of José Mariano—a young indigenous boy spotted "fornicating with [a mare]" near the town of Puebla, central Mexico, in 1803 (201). Witnesses reported that he had t…
View article: Clothing, race and identity : sumptuary laws in colonial Spanish America
Clothing, race and identity : sumptuary laws in colonial Spanish America Open
On holidays and other festive occasions, Andean peoples in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru liked to dress up. According to sixteenth - century documents, wealthy Amerindians in Lima, Quito and other colonial cities enjoyed wearing a combin…
View article: Potatoes and the Hispanic Enlightenment
Potatoes and the Hispanic Enlightenment Open
Among the new publications tempting Spanish readers in 1785, alongside a comedy about jealous women, a how-to manual on forensic surgery, and a 600-page translation of the rulings of the Council of Trent, was a modest pamphlet about potato…
View article: The Political Economy of Nutrition in the Eighteenth Century*
The Political Economy of Nutrition in the Eighteenth Century* Open
Eighteenth-century European writers frequently described foods as ‘nourishing’. Nourishing foods were acknowledged to play a central role in building the healthy, energetic populations identified as key to commercial and political success,…
View article: Promoting Potatoes in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Promoting Potatoes in Eighteenth-Century Europe Open
Eating acquired an unprecedented political resonance during the eighteenth century. This article uses the promotion of the potato as an Enlightenment super-food to trace the emergence of new models of political economy and governance, whic…