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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Cann, Candi K. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2018]
Series:Material worlds.
Subjects:
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.
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