The Social Archaeology Of Food
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| Author | : Christine A. Hastorf |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 419 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Cooking |
| ISBN | : 1107153360 |
Introduction : The Social Life of Food -- Part I. Laying the Groundwork -- Framing Food Investigation -- The Practices of a Meal in Society -- Part II. Current Food Studies in Archaeology -- The Archaeological Study of Food Activities -- Food Economics -- Food Politics : Power and Status -- Part III. Food and Identity : The Potentials of Food Archaeology -- Food in the Construction of Group Identity -- The Creation of Personal Identity : Food, Body and Personhood -- Food Creates Society
| Author | : Katheryn C. Twiss |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2019-11-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108474292 |
Surveys the archaeology of food: its methods and its themes (economics, politics, status, identity, gender, ethnicity, ritual, religion).
| Author | : Christine Ann Hastorf |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : SOCIAL SCIENCE |
| ISBN | : 9781316710869 |
"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"--Bookdepository.com.
| Author | : Karen Bescherer Metheny |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 635 |
| Release | : 2015-08-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0759123667 |
What are the origins of agriculture? In what ways have technological advances related to food affected human development? How have food and foodways been used to create identity, communicate meaning, and organize society? In this highly readable, illustrated volume, archaeologists and other scholars from across the globe explore these questions and more. The Archaeology of Food offers more than 250 entries spanning geographic and temporal contexts and features recent discoveries alongside the results of decades of research. The contributors provide overviews of current knowledge and theoretical perspectives, raise key questions, and delve into myriad scientific, archaeological, and material analyses to add depth to our understanding of food. The encyclopedia serves as a reference for scholars and students in archaeology, food studies, and related disciplines, as well as fascinating reading for culinary historians, food writers, and food and archaeology enthusiasts.
| Author | : Tamara L. Bray |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2007-05-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0306482460 |
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.
| Author | : Rebecca Gowland |
| Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2009-04-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1782972706 |
Human bones form the most direct link to understanding how people lived in the past, who they were and where they came from. The interpretative value of human skeletal remains (within their burial context) in terms of past social identity and organisation is awesome, but was, for many years, underexploited by archaeologists. The nineteen papers in this edited volume are an attempt to redress this by marrying the cultural aspects of burial with the anthropology of the deceased.
| Author | : Paul Halstead |
| Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2016-12-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1785705091 |
Food and drink, along with the material culture involved in their consumption, can signify a variety of social distinctions, identities and values. Thus, in Early Minoan Knossos, tableware was used to emphasize the difference between the host and the guests, and at Mycenaean Pylos the status of banqueters was declared as much by the places assigned to them as by the quality of the vessles form which they ate and drank. The ten contributions to this volume highlight the extraordinary opportunity for multi-disciplinary research in this area.
| Author | : Nerissa Russell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 561 |
| Release | : 2011-11-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1139504347 |
This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis of faunal evidence has primarily focused on the role of animals in the human diet and subsistence economy. This book, however, argues that animals have always played many more roles in human societies: as wealth, companions, spirit helpers, sacrificial victims, totems, centerpieces of feasts, objects of taboos, and more. These social factors are as significant as taphonomic processes in shaping animal bone assemblages. Nerissa Russell uses evidence derived from not only zooarchaeology, but also ethnography, history and classical studies, to suggest the range of human-animal relationships and to examine their importance in human society. Through exploring the significance of animals to ancient humans, this book provides a richer picture of past societies.
| Author | : Andrew M. Martin |
| Publisher | : AltaMira Press |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2013-07-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0759123586 |
In the last decade, a new conception of culture has emerged in sociology, out of the ashes of modernism and post-modernism, that has the potential to radically change how we think about cultural objects and groups in archaeology. Archaeology beyond Postmodernity re-evaluates current interpretive and methodological tools and adapts them to the new position. Many examples are given from Western and indigenous sciences to illustrate this different understanding of science and culture. In addition, several case studies demonstrate how it can be applied to interpret historic and prehistoric cultures.
| Author | : David Hally |
| Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
| Total Pages | : 616 |
| Release | : 2008-09-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0817354603 |
At the time of Spanish contact in AD 1540, the Mississippian inhabitants in north-western Georgia and adjacent portions of Alabama and Tennessee were organized into a number of chiefdoms distributed along the Coosa and Tennessee rivers and their major tributaries. This book is about one such town, known to archaeologists as the King site.
