Commensality : from everyday food to feast /
"Throughout time and in all parts of the world, humans have eaten together socially. Commensality, eating and drinking together, is fundamentally a social activity which creates and cements bonds which define our place in society. Covering prehistoric archaeology, to medieval banquets, to the i...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction / Susanne Kerner and Cynthia Chou
- Part I. Everyday Commensality: 2. Commensality and the Organization of Social Relations / Tan Chee-Benb; 3. Commensal Circles and the Common Pot / Penny van Esterik; 4. Commensality between the Young / Boris Andersen; 5. Activism through Commensality: Food and Politics in a Temporary Vegan Zone / Yvonne le Grand; 6. Cooking in the Fourth Millennium BCE: Investigating the Social via the Material / Maria Bianca D'Anna and Carolin Jauss
- Part II. Special Commensality: 7. Methodological and Definitional Issues in the Archaeology of Food / Katheryn C. Twiss; 8. Medieval and Modern Banquets: Commensality and Social Categorization / Paul Freedman; 9. It is Ritual, isn't it? Mortuary and Feasting Practices at Domuztepe / Alexandra Fletcher and Stuart Campbell; 10 .Drink and Commensality, or How to Hold onto Your Drink in the Chalcolithic / Susanne Kerner
- Part III. The Social and Political Aspects of Commensality: 11. How Chicken Rice Informs about Identity / Cynthia Chou; 12. Feasting on Locusts and Truffles in the Second Millenium BCE / Hanne Nyman; 13. Commensality and Sharing in an Andean Community in Bolivia / Cornelia A. Nell; 14. Dissolved in Liquor and Life: Drinkers and Drinking Cultures in Mo Yan's Novel, Liquorland / Astrid Møller-Olsen; 15. Justifications for Foodways and the Study of Commensality / Jordan D. Rosenblum; 16. The Role of Food in the Life of Christians in the Roman Empire / Morten Warmind; 17. Ritual Meals and Polemics in Antiquity / Ingvild Sœlid Gilhus.
- 1 Introduction / Susanne Kerner and Cynthia Chou
- Part I. Everyday Commensality: 2. Commensality and the Organization of Social Relations / Tan Chee-Benb; 3. Commensal Circles and the Common Pot / Penny van Esterik; 4. Commensality between the Young / Boris Andersen; 5. Activism through Commensality: Food and Politics in a Temporary Vegan Zone / Yvonne le Grand; 6. Cooking in the Fourth Millennium BCE: Investigating the Social via the Material / Maria Bianca D'Anna and Carolin Jauss
- Part II. Special Commensality: 7. Methodological and Definitional Issues in the Archaeology of Food / Katheryn C. Twiss; 8. Medieval and Modern Banquets: Commensality and Social Categorization / Paul Freedman; 9. It is Ritual, isn't it? Mortuary and Feasting Practices at Domuztepe / Alexandra Fletcher and Stuart Campbell; 10 .Drink and Commensality, or How to Hold onto Your Drink in the Chalcolithic / Susanne Kerner
- Part III. The Social and Political Aspects of Commensality: 11. How Chicken Rice Informs about Identity / Cynthia Chou; 12. Feasting on Locusts and Truffles in the Second Millenium BCE / Hanne Nyman; 13. Commensality and Sharing in an Andean Community in Bolivia / Cornelia A. Nell; 14. Dissolved in Liquor and Life: Drinkers and Drinking Cultures in Mo Yan's Novel, Liquorland / Astrid Møller-Olsen; 15. Justifications for Foodways and the Study of Commensality / Jordan D. Rosenblum; 16. The Role of Food in the Life of Christians in the Roman Empire / Morten Warmind; 17. Ritual Meals and Polemics in Antiquity / Ingvild Sœlid Gilhus.