Foodways, missionaries, and culinary accommodation in the Mariana Islands (1668-74)

The Jesuits played a vital role in the diffusion of crops, animals, agricultural practices, and eating manners throughout the early modern world. In the Mariana Islands (western Pacific), the arrival of the first missionaries in 1668 entailed the introduction of new foods and food-related material c...

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Autor: Peña Filiu, Verónica
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Foodways
Jesuit missionaries
Mariana Islands
Diet
Culinary accommodation
Manila galleon
CHamoru
Iberian colonialism
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spelling Foodways, missionaries, and culinary accommodation in the Mariana Islands (1668-74)Peña Filiu, VerónicaFoodwaysJesuit missionariesMariana IslandsDietCulinary accommodationManila galleonCHamoruIberian colonialismThe Jesuits played a vital role in the diffusion of crops, animals, agricultural practices, and eating manners throughout the early modern world. In the Mariana Islands (western Pacific), the arrival of the first missionaries in 1668 entailed the introduction of new foods and food-related material culture deemed necessary to establish a self-sufficient mission. However, during the first six years of the mission (1668-74), the resistance and opposition of the native inhabitants -the CHamoru people-to the Jesuits' activities, the unreliability of maritime trade routes, the conflicts that arose inside the Society of Jesus, and the tensions between the Jesuits and the Spanish colonial authorities affected missionaries' expectations regarding diet and cuisine. This article explores the strategies that the Jesuit missionaries followed to adjust their foodways to the social and physical environment of the Mariana Islands and pays attention to the process whereby local foods were adopted. In that sense, it argues that culinary accommodation- or "gastronomic accommodation" as defined by Cristina Osswald-was both a common practice to overcome the lack of Iberian resources and a political strategy to ease tensions and forge alliances with the indigenous population.Brill Academic Publishers2025202520222025info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/71096https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22141332-09020007http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71096reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)CatalánJournal of Jesuit Studies. 2022;9(2):263-80.© Verónica Peña Filiu, 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the prevailing cc-by-nc-nd 4.0 license.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/710962026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Foodways, missionaries, and culinary accommodation in the Mariana Islands (1668-74)
spellingShingle Foodways, missionaries, and culinary accommodation in the Mariana Islands (1668-74)
Peña Filiu, Verónica
Foodways
Jesuit missionaries
Mariana Islands
Diet
Culinary accommodation
Manila galleon
CHamoru
Iberian colonialism
title_short Foodways, missionaries, and culinary accommodation in the Mariana Islands (1668-74)
title_full Foodways, missionaries, and culinary accommodation in the Mariana Islands (1668-74)
title_fullStr Foodways, missionaries, and culinary accommodation in the Mariana Islands (1668-74)
title_full_unstemmed Foodways, missionaries, and culinary accommodation in the Mariana Islands (1668-74)
title_sort Foodways, missionaries, and culinary accommodation in the Mariana Islands (1668-74)
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Foodways
Jesuit missionaries
Mariana Islands
Diet
Culinary accommodation
Manila galleon
CHamoru
Iberian colonialism
topic Foodways
Jesuit missionaries
Mariana Islands
Diet
Culinary accommodation
Manila galleon
CHamoru
Iberian colonialism
description The Jesuits played a vital role in the diffusion of crops, animals, agricultural practices, and eating manners throughout the early modern world. In the Mariana Islands (western Pacific), the arrival of the first missionaries in 1668 entailed the introduction of new foods and food-related material culture deemed necessary to establish a self-sufficient mission. However, during the first six years of the mission (1668-74), the resistance and opposition of the native inhabitants -the CHamoru people-to the Jesuits' activities, the unreliability of maritime trade routes, the conflicts that arose inside the Society of Jesus, and the tensions between the Jesuits and the Spanish colonial authorities affected missionaries' expectations regarding diet and cuisine. This article explores the strategies that the Jesuit missionaries followed to adjust their foodways to the social and physical environment of the Mariana Islands and pays attention to the process whereby local foods were adopted. In that sense, it argues that culinary accommodation- or "gastronomic accommodation" as defined by Cristina Osswald-was both a common practice to overcome the lack of Iberian resources and a political strategy to ease tensions and forge alliances with the indigenous population.
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