A01=Rebekah E. Pite
Argentina
Author_Rebekah E. Pite
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Chile
commodities
community formation
consumption
culinary patriotism
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food and drink
gastrodiplomacy
gauchos and chinas
Guarani
indigenous foodways
intersectionality
nation making
national identity
Paraguay
politics of food
Rio de la Plata
ritualized drink(s)
southern Brazil
Southern Cone
southern South America
terere
Uruguay
visual culture
Yerba mate
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- ISBN 9781469674537
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 19 Sep 2023
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Drinking yerba mate is a daily, communal ritual that has brought together South Americans for some five centuries. In lively prose and with vivid illustrations, Rebekah E. Pite explores how this Indigenous infusion, made from the naturally caffeinated leaves of a local holly tree, became one of the most distinctive and widely consumed beverages in the region. Latin American food and commodity studies have focused on consumption in the global north, but Pite tells the story of yerba mate in South America, illuminating dynamic and exploitative circuits of production, promotion, and consumption. Ideas about who should harvest and serve yerba mate, along with visions of the archetypical mate drinker, persisted and were transformed alongside the shifting politics of class, race, and gender.
This global history takes us from the colonial Rio de la Plata to the top yerba-consuming and producing nations of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, with excursions to Chile, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, where yerba mate is now sold as a "superfood." For readers eager to understand South America and its unique drink, Sharing Yerba Mate is an essential text that delves into an everyday ritual to expose systems of power and the taste of belonging.
This global history takes us from the colonial Rio de la Plata to the top yerba-consuming and producing nations of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, with excursions to Chile, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, where yerba mate is now sold as a "superfood." For readers eager to understand South America and its unique drink, Sharing Yerba Mate is an essential text that delves into an everyday ritual to expose systems of power and the taste of belonging.
Rebekah E. Pite is professor of history at Lafayette College and author of Creating a Common Table in Twentieth-Century Argentina: Dona Petrona, Women, and Food.
