This book offers a global perspective on the role food has played in shaping human societies, through both individual and collective identities. It integrates ethnographic and archaeological case studies from the European and Near Eastern Neolithic, Han China, ancient Cahokia, Classic Maya, the Inka and many other periods and regions, to ask how the meal in particular has acted as a social agent in the formation of society, economy, culture and identity. Drawing on a range of social theorists, Hastorf provides a theoretical toolkit essential for any archaeologist interested in foodways. Studying the social life of food, this book engages with taste, practice, the meal and the body to discuss power, identity, gender and meaning that creates our world as it created past societies.
Ancestral Appetites: Food in Prehistory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Gremillion, K. J., 2015. Human behavioral ecology and paleoethnobotany. In Marston, J. M., and D'Alpoim Guedes, J., (eds.) ...
This volume examines the commensal politics of early states and empires and offers a comparative perspective on how food and feasting have figured in the political calculus of archaic states in both the Old and New Worlds.
In M. Parker Pearson and I. J. N. Thorpe (eds.) Violence, Warfare, and Slavery, 49–65. ... Louvain-La-Neuve, Département d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art. Whitley, J. (2002) Too many ancestors. Antiquity 76, 119–26.
Drawing on fieldwork undertaken in Bristol and York, the book first describes the way in which archaeological methods and theory have come to be usefully applied to the contemporary world, before exploring the historical development of the ...
Introduction : food for thought -- Part I. How did food shape us as humans? : food in human evolution -- Hunters and scavengers : the true "caveman" diet -- Little house on the savanna : fire, grandmothers, and homo erectus -- Big game and ...
The decision to devote the sixth annual Round Table of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology, held in January 2001, to 'Food, Cuisine and Society in Prehistoric Greece' was taken for several overlapping reasons.
The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel, Palestine and Jordan) from the Paleolithic period to the Islamic era, presenting the past with chronological changes from hunter ...
Appropriate for scholars from archaeology, the digital humanities, and other social sciences, this book offers novices and more experienced ABM researchers a modular approach to learning ABM and using it effectively.
Ethnohistoric documents for many Indian cultures describe the uses of and taboos and other beliefs about salt. The volume is organized into two parts: Salt Histories and Salt in Society.
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