Tequila A Natural and Cultural History

Name: Tequila A Natural and Cultural History
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ISBN: 9780816519385

ISBN-10: 0816519382

ISBN-13: 9780816519385

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ana G. Valenzuela-Zapata, Gary Paul Nabhan, Ana G. Valanzuela-Zapata

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 3/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 113
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.220
Language: English

He is a prize-winning author & naturalist, lives in Tucson, where he is director of conservation biology at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum & cofounder of Native Seeds/Search.



List of Illustrations


Preface: A Handful of Dreams Opened up to the Sun



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Tequila Hangovers and the Mescal Monoculture Blues




Distilling the Essences, Blending Two Worlds



Mescal de Tequila: The Mexican-American Microcosmos



The Wild Origins and Domestication of Mescal de Tequila



Tillers and Tale-Tellers: The Agrarian Tradition of Jimadores



Out of the Fields, into the Fire: Tradition and Globalization



When the Epidemic Hit the King of Clones



Landscape and Pueblo: Putting Tequila in Place



Dreaming the Future of Tequila



A Mescalero's Lexicon



Common Names for Mescal-Producing Agaves in Spanish Dialects and Indigenous Languages Spoken in "Mega-Mexico"



Agave Species Domesticated Prehistorically for Food, Fiber, Hedge, or Beverage Uses by Indigenous Communities



Species Description of Cultivated Agave Species Historically Used in the Tequila Industry


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