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Title Feasts : archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on food, politics, and power / edited by Michael Dietler and Brian Hayden.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2010]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 432 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Festivals -- Congresses.
Festivals.
Fasts and feasts -- Congresses.
Fasts and feasts.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Dietler, Michael.
Hayden, Brian.
Other Form: Print version: Feasts. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2010] 9780817356415 (DLC) 2010003231 (OCoLC)502875323
ISBN 9780817385385 (electronic book)
081738538X (electronic book)
9780817356415
081735641X