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Record W208733316 · doi:10.3138/cjh.44.1.1

“La Bebida Nacional”: Pulque and Mexicanidad, 1920-46

2009· article· en· W208733316 on OpenAlex
Amie Wright

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of History · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLatin American history and culture
Canadian institutionsCanadian Institute for Health Information
Fundersnot available
KeywordsColonialismIndigenousCommodityColonial periodConsumption (sociology)HistoryEthnologyArtEconomicsArchaeologyBiologyAesthetics

Abstract

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Made from the giant agave plant, pulque is less well-known than Mexico’s other noted beverage, tequila, but during Mexico’s critical nation-building period, 1920-46, this fermented beverage came to be known—both domestically and abroad — as the country’s national drink for both its Aztec roots and quotidian consumption by plebeian communities. However, overlooked were two notable omissions: pulque’s three-hundred-year history as a taxed colonial commodity under Spanish rule (1521-1821), and the domestic controversy over pulque’s “intoxicating” properties, especially amongst indigenous communities. I argue that the nation-building period persuasively constructed pulque as a “type” that represented both the pre-Colonial roots and the valourized everyday elements of the present critical to Mexicanidad. I explore how these essentialized constructions, in excising pulque’s colonial history and in minimizing pulque’s domestic controversy, constituted an invention of tradition.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.759
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.199
Teacher spread0.183 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it