ISBN:
9780817385385
,
081738538X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 432 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Feasts
DDC:
394.26
Keywords:
Festivals Congresses
;
Fasts and feasts Congresses
;
Electronic books
;
Conference proceedings
;
Fasts and feasts Congresses
;
Festivals Congresses
;
Fasts and feasts
;
Festivals
;
Conference papers and proceedings
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Holidays (non-religious)
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
