In this Book
- Feasts: Archaeological and Ethnographic Pespectives on Food, Politics, and Power
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
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 in which feasting traditions reveal social structures of lineage, clan, moiety, and polity.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- List of Tables
- pp. ix-x
- Contributors
- pp. xi-xii
- Part 1: Ethnographic Perspectives
- Part 2: Archaeological Perspectives
- 14. Feasting in the Ancient Near East
- pp. 391-403
- 15. Garbage and the Modern American Feast
- pp. 404-422
- Back Cover
- p. 446
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817385385
Related ISBN(s)
9780817356415
MARC Record
OCLC
787843319
Pages
444
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2010