Feasts: Archaeological and Ethnographic Pespectives on Food, Politics, and Power - Brossura

 
9780817356415: Feasts: Archaeological and Ethnographic Pespectives on Food, Politics, and Power
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ISBN 10: 081735641X ISBN 13: 9780817356415
Casa editrice: Univ of Alabama Pr, 2010

Sinossi

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Michael Dietler is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the author of "Consumption and Colonial Encounters in the Rhone Basin of France".

Hayden is a professor of archaeology at Simon Fraser University.

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Editore
Univ of Alabama Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
081735641X
ISBN 13 
9780817356415
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
432
Redattore
Dietler Michael, Hayden Brian
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