Chocolate in Mesoamerica: a cultural history of cacao

Introduction : The biology, antiquity, and modern uses of the chocolate tree (Theobroma cacao L.) / Cameron L. McNeil

Cacao and its relatives in South America : an overview of taxonomy, ecology, biogeography, chemistry, and ethnobotany / Nathaniel Bletter and Douglas C. Daly

The domestication and distribution of Theobroma cacao L. in the neotropics / Nisao Ogata, Arturo Gómez-Pompa, and Karl A. Taube

The jaguar tree (Theobroma bicolor Bonpl.) / Johanna Kufer and Cameron L. McNeil

The determination of cacao in samples of archaeological interest / W. Jeffrey Hurst

The history of the word for 'cacao' and related terms in ancient Meso-America / Terrence Kaufman and John Justeson

Brewing distinction : the development of cacao beverages in formative Mesoamerica / John S. Henderson and Rosemary A. Joyce

Cacao in ancient Maya religion : first fruit from the maize tree and other tales from the underworld / Simon Martin

The language of chocolate : references to cacao on classic Maya drinking vessels / David Stuart

The social context of Kakaw drinking among the ancient Maya / Dorie Reents-Budet

The use and representation of cacao during the classic period at Copan, Honduras / Cameron L. McNeil, W. Jeffrey Hurst, and Robert J. Sharer

Cacao in greater Nicoya : ethnohistory and a unique tradition / Larry Steinbrenner

The good and evil of chocolate in colonial Mexico / Manuel Aguilar-Morena

The Itza Maya control over cacao : politics, commerce, and war in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Laura Caso Barrera and Mario Aliphat F.

Cacao production, tribute, and wealth in sixteenth-century Izalcos, El Salvador / William R. Fowler

Soconusco cacao farmers past and present : continuity and change in an ancient way of life / Janine Gasco

Traditional cacao use in modern Meosamerica / Cameron L. McNeil

Cacao, gender, and the northern Lacandon god house / Timothy W. Pugh

Food for the rain gods : cacao in Ch'orti' ritual / Johanna Kufer and Michael Heinrich

Cacao in the Yukatek Maya healing ceremonies of Don Pedro Ucán Itza / Betty Bernice Faust and Javier Hirose López

From chocolate pots to Maya gold : Belizean cacao farmers through the ages / Patricia A. McAnany and Satoru Murata.