Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao

List of Contributors

Contributors Manuel Aguilar-Moreno, Associate Professor, Art History Department, California State University, Los Angeles Mario M. Aliphat F., Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology, Laboratorio de Etnoecología y Regiones Indigenas, Colegio de Postgraduados, Puebla, Mexico Nathaniel Bletter, Ph.D. candidate, Plant Sciences Program, New York Botanical Garden, and Biology Department, the Graduate Center, City University of New York Laura Caso Barrera, Professor of Ethnohistory and Anthropology, Laboratorio de Etnoecología y Regiones Indigenas, Colegio de Postgraduados, Puebla, México Douglas C. Daly, B. A. Krukoff Curator of Amazonian Botany, Institute of Systematic Botany, New York Botanical Garden Betty Bernice Faust, Senior Researcher, Department of Human Ecology, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional , Unidad Mérida, Yucatan, México William R. Fowler, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Janine Gasco, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Dominguez Hills List of Contributors 516 Arturo Gómez-Pompa, Professor, Department of Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside, and Advisor, Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales , Universidad Veracruzana, México Michael Heinrich, Professor and Head, Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy , School of Pharmacy, University of London John Henderson, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Javier Hirose-López, Graduate student, Centro de Estudios Mayas, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México W. Jeffrey Hurst, Senior Staff Scientist, Hershey Food Technical Center, Hershey , Pennsylvania, and Clinical Professor of Comparative Medicine, M. S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Rosemary Joyce, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California , Berkeley John Justeson, Professor, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Albany Terrence Kaufman, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh Johanna Kufer, Ph.D., University of London Centre for Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy, School of Pharmacy, University of London Patricia A. McAnany, Professor, Department of Archaeology, Boston University , Boston, Massachusetts Cameron L. McNeil, Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, the Graduate Center , City University of New York Simon Martin, Research Specialist in Maya Epigraphy, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia List of Contributors 517 Satoru Murata, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Archaeology, Boston University , Boston, Massachusetts Nisao Ogata, Professor, Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales, Universidad Veracruzana , México Timothy Pugh, Assistant Professor, Queens College, City University of New York, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York Dorie Reents-Budet, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Robert J. Sharer, holds the Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professorship in Anthropology , University of Pennsylvania, and is Curator of the American Section , University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia Larry Steinbrenner, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Canada David Stuart, the Linda and David Schele Professor of Mesoamerican Art and Writing, University of Texas, Austin Karl Taube, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside ...