TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caso Barrera L.
AU  - Aliphat Fernández M.
TI  - Cacao, vanilla and annatto: Three production and exchange systems in the Southern Maya lowlands, XVI-XVII centuries
T2  - Journal of Latin American Geography. 5(2), 29-52, 2006, DOI: 10.1353/lag.2006.0015
KW  - ANNATTO
KW  - CACAO
KW  - CHOCOLATE
KW  - ITZÁ MAYA
KW  - LACANDON
KW  - MANCHE CHOL
KW  - SOUTHERN MAYA LOWLANDS
KW  - TRADING SYSTEMS
KW  - VANILLA
N2  - In this paper various historic agrosystems in the Maya Lowlands are examined; two of them specialized in semi-intensive and intensive production of three main crops: cacao, annatto and vanilla. The paper also examines the political and military pressure exerted by the Itzá on the Lacandón and Manché Chol territories which produced these valued crops. After the conquest of Verapaz, Spanish civil and religious authorities also exercised constant pressure over these territories and the encomienda towns of Verapaz traded with them to obtain cacao and annato. The Manché Chol cacao orchards are presented as an example of true cacao plantations
UR  - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ruQAoIkvWekfd4sRgOKe-YzOIZkC5q46/view?usp=drive_link
ER  -