Description |
1 online resource (xi, 432 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Digesting the Feast-Good to Eat, Good to Drink, Good to Think: An Introduction -- Michael Dietler and Brian Hayden -- Part 1: Ethnographic Perspectives -- Part 2: Archaeological Perspectives |
Summary |
From the ancient Near East to modern-day North America, communal consumption of food and drink punctuates the rhythms of human societies. Feasts serve many social purposes, establishing alliances for war and marriage, mobilizing labor, creating political power and economic advantages, and redistributing wealth. In this collection of fifteen essays, archaeologists and ethnographers explore the material record of food and its consumption as social practice. They examine the locations of roasting pits, hearths, and refuse deposits, or the presence of special decorative ceramics, and infer ways |
Notes |
Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Festivals -- Congresses
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Fasts and feasts -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Holidays (non-religious)
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Fasts and feasts
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Festivals
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Dietler, Michael
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Hayden, Brian
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LC no. |
2010003231 |
ISBN |
9780817385385 |
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081738538X |
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