AM205 seminar topics and reading
--Why have Indians so often been accused of being drunkards?
Readings
Bunzel, Ruth, ‘The Rôle of Alcoholism in Two Central American Cultures’, Psychiatry, vol. 3 (1940), pp. 361-87.
Eber, Christine, Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town, University of Texas Press (Austin, 2001), especially chapter 2: ‘The Time of Suffering: Pedranos, Ladinos and Rum’, and Conclusions.
Garrard-Burnett, Virginia, ‘Indians are Drunks and Drunks are Indians: Alcohol and Indigenismo in Guatemala, 1890-1940’, Bulletin of Latin American Research, vol. 19:3 (2000)
Gruzinski, Serge, ‘La Mere Dévorante: Alcoolisme, Sexualité et Déculturation chez les Mexicas (1500-1550)’, Cahiers des Amériques Latines, vol. 20 (1979)
Mancall, Peter, Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America (Ithaca, 1995) (for comparisons with the USA)
Maqueo Castellanos, Eusebio, ‘La persecución del alcoholismo’, Algunos problemas nacionales (Mexico, 1910).
*Taylor, William, Drinking, Homicide and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages, Chapter 2: ‘Drinking’
Weismantel, M. J., ‘Maize Beer and Andean Social Transformations: Drunken Indians, Bread Babies and Chosen Women’, MLN, vol. 106 (1991).
--What role has alcohol played in social unrest in 18th-19th-century Spanish America?
Readings
Gayol, Sandra, ‘Ebrios y divertidos: la estrategia del alcohol en Buenos Aires, 1860-1900’, Siglo XIX, no. 13 (1993)
McFarlane, Anthony, ‘The Rebellion of the Barrios’, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 69 (1989)
Scardaville, Michael, ‘Alcohol Abuse and Tavern Reform in Late Colonial Mexico City’, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 60:4 (1980)
Taylor, William, Drinking, Homicide and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages, Chapter 3: ‘Homicide’, and the Conclusion
*Viqueira Albán, Juan Pedro, Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico, SR Books (Wilmington, 1999), pp. 129-63.
