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Water

E. N. Anderson

Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Anthropology,

University of California, Riverside

“Bless the Lord….

He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.

They give drink to every beast of the field:  the wild asses quench their thirst….

He watereth the hills from his chambers:  the earth is satisfied…..

The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;

Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies [rock hyraxes].”    Psalm 104:1, 10-18

Arizona has a water problem.  Its water resources are exceedingly limited by climate and geography.  It is expanding rapidly.  Its citizens love lawns and gardens.  And it is in the very eye of the hurricane of global warming:  all models show that Arizona will be one of the most drastically drought-stricken areas of the world as global warming progresses.  The climate we now associate with Arizona’s southwest border will move northward.

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Updates to Anderson, The Food of China (Yale University Press, 1988).

This update resulted from my having the opportunity to teach a short course on Chinese food history at the Universita di Scienze Gastronomiche, Pollenza, Italy, in 2005.  What follows is simply a set of rough working notes on the literature that has come out since 1988, with several additional field observations of my own.  I claim no academic virtues for this quick-and-dirty job, but it may be useful as a reference, mainly as a reference source for interested food scholars.

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Medieval Irish literature provides a unique view of an environmental vision very different from anything found today.  This vision runs through its epics, long stories and sequences of stories, lyric poetry, religious literature, and place-name accounts. These last are interesting because a proper toponymy includes the stories behind the names.  These were called dinnsenchas, and often involved quite long myths tracing place names to divine intervention. They reveal an intense involvement with, and extreme concern for, places and landscapes, often going back to religious associations of particular places.

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Politics:  additional supplementary material for BETWEEN US AND THINGS

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This is the introductory part of a cookbook of Maya food.  The other chapters to follow are Yucatan 1, Yucatan 2, Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco.  They have had to be uploaded separately because of space limitations in my browser, but they are all part of a single work.  Enjoy….MAYALAND CUISINE:

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Tabasco food; also the glossary and bibliography for the whole cookbook, at the end.

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Chiapas cuisine and some cultural notes.

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Foods of Campeche are described in this chapter.

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More Maya recipes from Yucatan and Quintana RooMEAT

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Second part of my Maya cookbook.Chapter 1.  Yucatan
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