Feasts : archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on food, politics, and power / edited by Michael Dietler and Brian Hayden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dietler, Michael.

Hayden, Brian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Festivals--Congresses.

Festivals.

Fasts and feasts--Congresses.

Fasts and feasts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 432 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the ancient Near East to modern-day North America, communal consumption of food and drink punctuates the rhythms of human societies. Feasts serve many social purposes, establishing alliances for war and marriage, mobilizing labor, creating political power and economic advantages, and redistributing wealth. In this collection of fifteen essays, archaeologists and ethnographers explore the material record of food and its consumption as social practice. They examine the locations of roasting pits, hearths, and refuse deposits, or the presence of special decorative ceramics, a

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Contributors; 1. Digesting the Feast-Good to Eat, Good to Drink, Good to Think: An Introduction - Michael Dietler and Brian Hayden; Part 1: Ethnographic Perspectives; 2. Fabulous Feasts: A Prolegomenon To The Importance Of Feasting - Brian Hayden; 3. Theorizing The Feast: Rituals Of Consumption, Commensal Politics, And Power In African Contexts - Michael Dietler; 4. Of Feasting And Value: Enga Feasts In A Historical Perspective(Papua New Guinea) - Polly Wiessner; 5. Akha Feasting: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective - Michael J Clarke

6. Polynesian Feasting In Ethnohistoric, Ethnographic, And Archaeological Contexts: A Comparison Of Three Societies - Patrick V. Kirch7. Feasting For Prosperity: A Study Of Southern Northwest Coast Feasting - James R. Perodie; 8. The Big Drink: Feast And Forum In The Upper Amazon - Warren R. DeBoer; 9. Feasts And Labor Mobilization: Dissecting A Fundamental Economic Practice - Michael Dietler and Ingrid Herbich; Part 2: Archaeological Perspectives; 10. The Evolution Of Ritual Feasting Systems In Prehispanic Philippine Chiefdoms - Laura Lee Junker

11. Feasting And The Emergence Of Platform Mound Ceremonialism In Eastern North America - Vernon James Knight; 12. A Case Of Ritual Feasting At The Cahokia Site - Lucretia S. Kelly; 13. Feasting On The Periphery: The Production Of Ritual Feasting And Village Festivals At The Cerén Site, El Salvador - Linda A. Brown; 14. Feasting In The Ancient Near East - Denise Schmandt -Besserat; 15. Garbage and The Modern American Feast - Douglas C. Wilson And William L. Rathje; Index

Notes:

Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8538-X

OCLC:

787843319