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Title Feasts : archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on food, politics, and power / edited by Michael Dietler and Brian Hayden
Published Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2010]

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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
Fasts and feasts -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Holidays (non-religious)
Fasts and feasts
Festivals
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Dietler, Michael
Hayden, Brian
LC no. 2010003231
ISBN 9780817385385
081738538X