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The Never-ending Feast: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Feasting

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Description for The Never-ending Feast: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Feasting Paperback. The significance of feasts, feasting and drinking throughout the history of the world is not to be underestimated. The Never-Ending Feast explores and analyses the variety of traditions surrounding and significances ascribed to commensality, throwing light on how and why human history is essentially the story of the never-ending feast. Num Pages: 256 pages, 21 bw illus. BIC Classification: HBTB; HD; JFCV; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 11. Weight in Grams: 406.
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, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847889256
SKU
V9781847889256
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99-50

About O
Kaori O'Connor is a Senior Research fellow in the Department of Anthropology at UCL, UK, author of The English Breakfast: The Biography of a National Meal (Bloomsbury, 2013) and winner of the Sophie Coe Prize for Food History (2009).

Reviews for The Never-ending Feast: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Feasting
Feasting, anthropologist O'Connor (Univ. College London) argues, has received less attention but is an ideal-and universal-phenomenon that reflects key elements of social life: issues of power, status, and competition; celebrations of the sacred and secular, place and time; mobilization of people and natural resources; and much more. The author draws on textual and museum sources to write an anthropology of ... Read more

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