Colonial destruction and Spanish observers limit the evidence. The explanatory model is not a demonstrated single cause of later alcohol problems; historical pregnancy practices are not health advice.
A Short History of Drunkenness (2017), Aztecs
Pulque appears within regulation, religious ritual, age exceptions and colonial disruption; the chapter proposes a wet/dry-culture interpretation.
chap. 13, “The Aztecs”
chap. 13, “The Aztecs”
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Evidence
Pulque appears within regulation, religious ritual, age exceptions and colonial disruption; the chapter proposes a wet/dry-culture interpretation.
Location and context
Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness (2017), chap. 13, “The Aztecs”. Original paraphrase, not quotation. The private PDF retrieval range is retained in Verification Notes.
Annotation
Colonial destruction and Spanish observers limit the evidence. The explanatory model is not a demonstrated single cause of later alcohol problems; historical pregnancy practices are not health advice.
Verification
Faithful attribution checked; historical truth not thereby established.