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Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World
by Marcy Norton
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Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures A History of Tobacco and Marcy Norton shatters this subconscious ahistoricism with her book Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World in which she traces the early path that led to the global hegemony of Chocolate and Tobacco what she calls the first commodity fetishes of the modern world 12 Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures A History of Tobacco Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures A History of Tobacco Chocolate in the Atlantic World by Marcy Norton 2008 It forms part of wider native strategy of resistance against Europeans of natives having the Creoles as do tales fables of these potions casting spells ranging from expelling worms to falling in love Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures A History of Tobacco and Tobacco became one of the most lucrative monopolies established by the Spanish Crown chocolate did not The author forcefully challenges arguments that acceptance of tobacco and chocolate by inhabitants of the Old World was due to their medicinal attributes and only later began to use them as ‘profane pleasures’ Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures A History of Tobacco and Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World However no one could quite forget the pagan past of tobacco and chocolate despite their apparent Europeanization physicians relied on Mesoamerican medical systems for their understanding of tobacco theologians looked to Aztec precedent to decide whether chocolate drinking violated Lenten fasts Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures A History of Tobacco and Tobacco once condemned as proof of Indian diabolism became the constant companion of clergymen and the single largest source of state revenue in Spain Before coffee or tea became popular in Europe chocolate was the drink that energized the fatigued and uplifted the depressed Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures A History of Tobacco and Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures draws on a rich and varied array of sources including artwork shipping registers religious treatises medical manuals Inquisition records and poetry Norton delineates how Iberians emulated and adapted American habits as they sought to fit tobacco and chocolate into their religious worldviews medical practices habits of sociability and economic systems Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures by Marcy Norton Goodreads A fascinating story of contact exploration and exchange in the Atlantic world Sacred Gifts P Before Columbuss fateful voyage in 1492 no European had ever seen much less tasted tobacco or chocolate Project MUSE Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures A History Both products were intimately tied with indigenous rituals although tobacco came to be viewed in a more negative light as diabolically inspired while chocolate the drink of indigenous lords was associated with the emerging image of the noble savage Project MUSE Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures A History Journal of Social History Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World Tom Brennan Sacred Gifts Profane Pleasures A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World By Marcy Norton Ithaca Cornell University Press 2008 xvi plus 334 pp
