Jennifer Mathews, accessory assistant of folklore and anthropology at Trinity University, traces the roots of chicle, a adhesive adhesive from the sapodilla timberline begin in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, and how it gave acceleration to the chewing gum industry in her new book, Chicle. The Chewing Gum of the Americas: From the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley.
(Vocus/PRWEB ) May 27, 2009 -- It may not assume like the blazon of book to appear from an archeologist who spends a lot of of her summers alive on recently-discovered Maya sites in southern Mexico. But for Jennifer Mathews, accessory assistant of folklore and anthropology at Trinity, archetype the history of chicle, a adhesive adhesive from the sapodilla timberline begin in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, and how it gave acceleration of the chewing gum industry was a adventure that bare to be told.
The awning of Chicle. The Chewing Gum of the Americas: From the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley.
I had a abundant time autograph this book They knew area every archeological website was because they were the ones walking through the forests. Starting in the 1930s, archeologists accomplished that the chicleros were a gold abundance of advice and they could plan as guides. The appulse of chicle is far greater than a lot of would imagine, including the abundant fortunes it created for U.S. industrialists and the abundant assessment this took on the abridgement and humans of Latin America, its ties to actual abstracts like President Santa Anna and Amelia Earhart, and the abundant amusing all-overs it created for amenities authorities like the age-old Aztecs and Emily Post It is absolutely an addition of the Americas . Jungle Rails: A Narrow Gauge Railway in Quintana Roo, Mexico Her new book, Chicle. The Chewing Gum of the Americas: From the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley (University of Arizona Press), is the aboriginal absolute attending at chicle, and includes capacity on how it was acclimated by the age-old Maya and Aztecs, the botany of the sapodilla tree, the bang and apprehension of the chicle-based chewing gum industry, and the ability of the chicleros - workers who calm the chicle adhesive in the affection of the forests.
"I had a abundant time autograph this book," said Professor Mathews, who batten about account old bi-weekly clippings, visiting archives, traveling through demography data, interviewing above chicleros, and poring over a aggregate of books accounting by a Spanish priest in the 1500s.
Among the amazing facts she begin were:
- In Aztec society, it was bad amenities to bite gum in public. Women who about clacked their gum were equated with prostitutes, while men were advised to be sodomites. Former President of Mexico Antonio López de Santa Anna alien chicle to Thomas Adams, who acclimated it to body the aboriginal chewing gum empire. William Wrigley, addition chewing gum king, assertive the U.S. aggressive to cover chewing gum with the armament for soldiers during World War I and II. It created a chewing gum addiction that advance about the world. Amelia Earhart's aboriginal transcontinental flight (New Jersey to California and back) was sponsored by Beech-Nut. It was this flight that absolutely launched her acclaim as a pilot.
Jennifer Mathews
Professor Mathews said that chicle-based gum, from Adams to Yucatán, became so accepted that the chicle industry could not accumulate up with demand. Eventually U.S. companies abandoned chicle acrylic for constructed materials. Today, Verve, Inc. produces the alone chicle-based artefact in the U.S. alleged Glee Gum.
Professor Mathews aswell appear that chicle has a absolute affiliation to Maya archeology, as chicleros were the key to above discoveries. "They knew area every archeological website was because they were the ones walking through the forests. Starting in the 1930s, archeologists accomplished that the chicleros were a gold abundance of advice and they could plan as guides."
"The chicleros, advised asperous and tumble individuals, formed with the archeologists and led them to cogent Maya ruins, such as Bonampak, in Chiapas, Mexico, the website of arresting murals, and Calakmul in Campeche, Mexico, which has the better amount of carved monuments in the Maya world.
"The appulse of chicle is far greater than a lot of would imagine, including the abundant fortunes it created for U.S. industrialists and the abundant assessment this took on the abridgement and humans of Latin America, its ties to actual abstracts like President Santa Anna and Amelia Earhart, and the abundant amusing all-overs it created for amenities authorities like the age-old Aztecs and Emily Post," said Professor Mathews. "It is absolutely an addition of the Americas ."
Courses Taught:
- Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology Seminar on the Ancient Maya Pre-Columbian Art of Mesoamerica Human Evolution Anthropological Ethics Anthropological Forensics Primatology
Selected Publications:
- Chicle. The Chewing Gum of the Americas : From the Ancient Maya to William Wrigley, (with contributions from Gillian P. Schultz). University of Arizona Press. 2009. Lifeways in the Northern Maya Lowlands: New Approaches to Archaeology in the Yucatán Peninsula. Edited with Bethany A. Morrison, University of Arizona Press, 2006. "Jungle Rails: A Narrow Gauge Railway in Quintana Roo, Mexico" (with Lilia Lizama-Aranda). In Quintana Roo Archaeology, edited by Justine Shaw and Jennifer P. Mathews, 2005.
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