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Guess who's coming to dinner : feasting rituals in the prehistoric societies of Europe and the near East / Gonzalo Aranda Jimenez, Sandra Monton-Subias, Margarita Sanchez Romero ; prologue by Ferran Adria.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aranda Jiménez, Gonzalo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prehistoric peoples--Food--Europe.
- Prehistoric peoples.
- Prehistoric peoples--Food--Middle East.
- Social archaeology--Europe.
- Social archaeology.
- Social archaeology--Middle East.
- Europe--Antiquities.
- Europe.
- Middle East--Antiquities.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner examines how specific types of food were prepared and eaten during feasting rituals in prehistoric Europe and the Near East. Such rituals allowed people to build and maintain their power and prestige and to maintain or contest the status quo. At the same time, they also contributed to the inner cohesion and sense of community of a group. When eating and drinking together, people share thoughts and beliefs and perceive the world and human relationships in a certain way. The twelve contributions to this book reflect the main theoretical and methodological issues rela
- Contents:
- Cover; 12. The Archaeological Identifi cation of Feasts and Banquets:Th eoretical Notes and the Case of Mas Castellar; List of Contributors; Prologue; 1. Appetite Comes With Eating: An Overview of the Social Meaningof Ritual Food and Drink Consumption; 2. Commensality Rituals: Feeding Identities in Prehistory; 3. Feasting and Social Dynamics in the Epipaleolithicof the Fertile Crescent: An Interpretive Exercise; 4. Evolving Human/Animal Interactions in the Near Eastern Neolithic:Feasting as a Case Study; 5. Feeding Stonehenge: Feasting in Late Neolithic Britain
- 6. Political Cuisine: Rituals of Commensalityin the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean7. Drinking and Eating Together: Th e Social and Symbolic Contextof Commensality Rituals in the Bell Beakers of the Interior of Iberia(2500-2000 cal BC); 8. Feasting Death: Funerary Rituals in the Bronze Age Societiesof South-Eastern Iberia; 9. Feasting Metals and the Ideology of Power in the Late Bronze Ageof Atlantic Iberia; 10. Representing Communities in Heterogeneous Worlds: Staple Foodsand Ritual Practices in the Phoenician Diaspora; 11. Consumption Relations in the Northern Iberian Household
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-84217-653-6
- OCLC:
- 831118154
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