Like Water for Chocolate: Feasting and Political Ritual among the Late Classic Maya at Xunantunich, Belize

American Anthropologist

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 935-953

  Lecount, Lisa J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient Maya; Chocolate; Feasting; Pottery analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035566959     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2001.103.4.935     Document Type: Article

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