The never-ending feast : the anthropology and archaeology of feasting /

"Human life is a never-ending feast. Throughout history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been the primary arena for displays of hierarchy, status and power; a stage upon which loyalties and alliances are negotiated; the occasion for the mobilization and distribution of resources, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Connor, Kaori (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Temas:
Food habits > History.
Food > Social aspects.
Dinners and dining > History.
Habitudes alimentaires > Histoire.
Aliments > Aspect social.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Social & cultural history.
European history.
Archaeology.
Food & society.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Agriculture & Food.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY > Social History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE/Customs & Traditions.
Dinners and dining.
Food habits.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Invitation to the Feast
  • Mesopotamia : The Pursuit of Abundance
  • The Assyrians and Achaemenid Persians : Empires of Feasting
  • The Greeks : Now Let Us Hasten to the Feast
  • Eurasia : The Mongols, an Empire Built on Drinking
  • China : the Hidden History of Chinese Feasting
  • Japan : Banqueting Beyond a Bridge of Drams
  • Epilogue : After the Feast.

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