Food taboos in archaeology / Max Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Max D., author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in the archaeology of food

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--History--To 1500.

Food habits.

Taboo.

taboo.

Food habits--History.

Physical Description:

72 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Anthropologists have struggled with the concept of the food taboo for over a century; and archaeologists struggle with detecting them in the material signatures of the past. Yet by recognizing that ancient peoples must have followed taboos, some of which may have persisted for thousands of years, we gain insight into how cultural traditions shaped the ways in which people ate and interacted with their environments. This Element concerns food and the cultural structures that surround it. It provides an overview of the history and anthropological understandings of food taboos, and offers critical engagement with the current archaeological method and theory investigating these. Archaeological case studies, including the pig taboo in Judaism and ethnoarchaeological analysis of various mammalian taboos among the Nukak of Amazonia, shed light on the difficulties and prospects of studying food taboos in the material record.

Notes:

Print on demand edition.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781009663571

1009663577

9781009663618

1009663615

OCLC:

1559754862

Publisher Number:

90104456898

CIPO000335824