Dying to eat : cross-cultural perspectives on food, death, and the afterlife /

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Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly pour offerings of food and drink into t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cann, Candi K. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2018]
Colección:Material worlds.
Temas:
Food habits > Cross-cultural studies.
Death > Cross-cultural studies.
Habitudes alimentaires > Études transculturelles.
Mort > Études transculturelles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Death.
Food habits.
Cross-cultural studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Starters: the role of food in bereavement and memorialization
  • Chinese ancestral worship: food to sustain, transform, and heal the dead and the living
  • The eating ritual in Korean religiosity: Young San Jae for the dead and for the living
  • Sweetening death: shifting landscapes of the role of food in grief and mourning
  • Funeral food as resurrection in the American South
  • The circle of life: memorializing and sustaining faith
  • Moroccan funeral feasts
  • Alcohol consumption, transgression, and death
  • Eating and drinking with the dead in South Africa.

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