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Yerba Mate

The Drink That Shaped a Nation

Julia J.S. Sarreal (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

394 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-37927-5 (ISBN)

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Like coffee or tea, yerba mate is one of the world's most beloved caffeinated beverages. Once dubbed a "devil's drink" by Spanish missionaries in South America only to be later hailed by capitalists and politicians as "green gold," it has a long and storied history. And no country consumes and celebrates yerba mate quite like Argentina.

Yerba Mate is the first book to explore the extraordinary history of this iconic beverage in Argentina from the precolonial period to the present. From yerba mate's Indigenous origins to its ubiquity during the colonial era, from its association with rural people and the poor in the late nineteenth century to its resurgence in the last years of the twentieth century, Julia Sarreal meticulously documents yerba mate's consumption, production, and cultural importance over time. Yerba Mate is the definitive history of this popular beverage and social practice, and it tells a fascinating story about race, culture, and how a drink helped forge the national identity of one of the world's most dynamic countries.

Julia J.S. Sarreal is Associate Professor at Arizona State University and author of The Guaraní and Their Missions: A Socioeconomic History. She has a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University and teaches classes on Latin American History and Latin American Studies. Dr. Sarreal first tried yerba mate as a Peace Corps volunteer in Curuguaty, Paraguay. Her intellectual interest in the beverage was sparked while living in Buenos Aires and working on her dissertation about the Guaraní missions.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 • From Indigenous Staple to Colonial Commodity
2 • Tool of Empire
3 • Borderland Production and the Struggle to Form an Argentine Nation
4 • Gaucho Mythology and the Drink of the New Argentines
5 • Profits and Nationalism: The Rise of Green Gold in Argentina’s Belle Epoque
6 • Yerba Regulation, Nationalism, and the Fall of Laissez-Faire Ideology
7 • Yerba Workers as a Symbol of Capitalist Exploitation
8 • Modernity, Mass Politics, and Mate’s Decline
9 • The Rebirth of Mate with Democracy, Economic Crisis, and Globalization

Afterword

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	California Studies in Food and Culture ; 79
Zusatzinfo	24 b-w illustrations, 1 map
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-10	0-520-37927-6 / 0520379276
ISBN-13	978-0-520-37927-5 / 9780520379275
Zustand	Neuware