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Food and gender in Fiji : ethnoarchaeological explorations / Sharyn Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Sharyn, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnoarchaeology--Fiji--Lau Province.
- Ethnoarchaeology.
- Fish remains (Archaeology)--Fiji--Lau Province.
- Fish remains (Archaeology).
- Food consumption--Fiji--Lau Province.
- Food consumption.
- Food habits--Fiji--Lau Province.
- Food habits.
- Plant remains (Archaeology)--Fiji--Lau Province.
- Plant remains (Archaeology).
- Sex role--Fiji--Lau Province.
- Sex role.
- Women--Fiji--Lau Province--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Antiquities.
- Manners and customs.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Lau Province (Fiji)--Antiquities.
- Lau Province (Fiji).
- Lau Province (Fiji)--Social life and customs.
- Fiji--Lau Province.
- Genre:
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2009.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This book examines the social relations surrounding foodways on the island of Nayau in Fiji. Offering a comprehensive and rigorous example of ethnoarchaeology at work, Jones' book has major implications for archaeological interpretations of foodways, gender, identity, and social organization in the Pacific Islands and beyond.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Fieldwork: Motivations, Plans, and Realities; Chapter 2. The Environmental and Social Landscape: The Lau Islands, Fiji; Chapter 3. Foodways and Social Relations in the Past and Present; Chapter 4. Food Consumption Patterns and Refuse Disposal; Chapter 5. Lauan Fishing; Chapter 6. Food in the Lau Islands and Its Implications for Ethnoarchaeology and Archaeology; Appendix A: Archaeological Methods; Appendix B: Structured Ethnographic Interviews Conducted on Nayau, October and November 2003; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-4171-5
- 979-82-16-32241-2
- 1-282-49431-7
- 9786612494314
- 0-7391-3482-5
- OCLC:
- 438072040
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