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Feast : why humans share food / Martin Jones.

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks TX 652 .C37 n.528
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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
xiii, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2007.
Summary:
"In Feast, Martin Jones reconstructs the development of the meal, with the help of the latest archaeological techniques: from chimpanzees at a kill to university professors at a formal feast, from a Roman banquet to the TV dinner and the drive-through diner. Spanning half a million years, this account reveals the history of the meal and its huge impact both on the society and the ecology of the planet."--Jacket.
Contents:
  • A return to the hearth
  • Are we so different? : how apes eat
  • In search of big game
  • Fire, cooking, and growing a brain
  • Naming and eating
  • Among strangers
  • Seasons of the feast
  • Hierarchy and the food chain
  • Eating in order to be
  • Far from the hearth
  • The stomach and the soul
  • A global food web.
Notes:
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-342) and index.
  • Current Copyright Fee: GBP22.50 0.
Local Notes:
HSP Historic Culinary Arts Collection.
Other Format:
Online version: Jones, Martin, 1951- Feast.
ISBN:
  • 9780199209019
  • 0199209014
  • 9780199533527
  • 0199533520
OCLC:
75713258
Publisher Number:
99816632985
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