The Power of Feasts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Power of Feasts write by Brian Hayden. This book was released on 2014-09-29. The Power of Feasts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in societies ranging from the prehistoric to the modern.
Feasts
Feasts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feasts write by Michael Dietler. This book was released on 2010-04-30. Feasts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this collection of fifteen essays, archaeologists and ethnographers explore the material record of food and its consumption as social practice.
The Power of Ritual in Prehistory
The Power of Ritual in Prehistory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Power of Ritual in Prehistory write by Brian Hayden. This book was released on 2018-09-13. The Power of Ritual in Prehistory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.
The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires
The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires write by Tamara L. Bray. This book was released on 2007-05-28. The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. It provides a cross-cultural and comparative analysis for scholars and graduate students concerned with the archaeology of complex societies, the anthropology of food and feasting, ancient statecraft, archaeological approaches to micro-political processes, and the social interpretation of prehistoric pottery.
The Never-ending Feast
The Never-ending Feast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Never-ending Feast write by Kaori O'Connor. This book was released on 2015-02-26. The Never-ending Feast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Feast! Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts – dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through long straws of gold and lapis, immense cauldrons from which hundreds of people could be served. Why were feasts so important, and is there more to feasting than abundance and enjoyment? The Never-Ending Feast is a pioneering work that draws on anthropology, archaeology and history to look at the dynamics of feasting among the great societies of antiquity renowned for their magnificence and might. Reflecting new directions in academic study, the focus shifts beyond the medieval and early modern periods in Western Europe, eastwards to Mesopotamia, Assyria and Achaemenid Persia, early Greece, the Mongol Empire, Shang China and Heian Japan. The past speaks through texts and artefacts. We see how feasts were the primary arena for displays of hierarchy, status and power; a stage upon which loyalties and alliances were negotiated; the occasion for the mobilization and distribution of resources, a means of pleasing the gods, and the place where identities were created, consolidated – and destroyed. The Never-Ending Feast transforms our understanding of feasting past and present, revitalising the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, museum studies, material culture and food studies, for all of which it is essential reading.
