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The Power of Feasts
Author | : Brian Hayden |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2014-09-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107042995 |
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In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in societies ranging from the prehistoric to the modern.
Feasts
Author | : Michael Dietler,Brian Hayden |
Publsiher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2010-04-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780817356415 |
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In this collection of fifteen essays, archaeologists and ethnographers explore the material record of food and its consumption as social practice.
Feasting in Southeast Asia
Author | : Brian Hayden |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780824856298 |
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Feasting has long played a crucial role in the social, political, and economic dynamics of village life. It is far more than a gustatory and social diversion from daily work routines: alliances are brokered by feasts; debts are created and political battles waged. Feasts create enormous pressure to increase the production of food and prestige items in order to achieve the social and political goals of their promoters. In fact, Brian Hayden argues, the domestication of plants and animals likely resulted from such feasting pressures. Feasting has been one of the most important forces behind cultural change since the end of the Paleolithic era. Feasting in Southeast Asia documents the dynamics of traditional feasting and the ways in which a bewildering array of different types of feasts benefits hosts. Hayden argues that people’s ability to marry, reproduce, defend themselves against threats and attacks, and protect their interests in village politics all depend on their ability to engage in feasting networks. To be excluded from such networks means to be subject to attack by social predators, perhaps even leading to enslavement. As an archaeologist, Hayden pays specific attention to the materials involved in feasting and how feasting might be identified and interpreted from archaeological remains. His conclusions are based on his own ethnographic field studies in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Indonesia, as well as a comparative overview of the regional literature on feasting. Hayden gives particular attention to the longhouses of Vietnam, an unusual but important social unit that hosts feasts, in an attempt to understand why they became established. This unique volume is the culmination of fifteen years of fieldwork among tribal groups in Southeast Asia. Until now no one has examined feasting as a general phenomenon in Southeast Asia or tried to synthesize its underlying dynamics from a theoretical perspective. The book will be of interest to cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, and others involved in food studies.
The Power of Ritual in Prehistory
Author | : Brian Hayden |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2018-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108426398 |
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Secret societies in tribal societies turn out to be key to understanding the origins of social inequalities and state religions.
7 Feasts
Author | : Erin Davis |
Publsiher | : Moody Publishers |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2020-06-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780802498182 |
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What’s the story behind all those feasts? It’s hard to know when you read about the Feast of Booths why exactly it matters for your life. What in the world is the Feast of Trumpets supposed to be teaching you? And, in this case, the text itself doesn’t tell you. You need a resource, a guide that can help you understand the cultural significance and how these feasts relate to the rest of the Bible. That’s exactly what Erin Davis does in this new 8-week Bible study, 7 Feasts. She’ll teach you: The significance of these feasts and why God wanted His people to celebrate How each of them point to Jesus and His work in redemption Why all of this matters for our lives today You will discover that passages you once skimmed over are now rich and meaningful in your life today.
The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires
Author | : Tamara L. Bray |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2007-05-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780306482465 |
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This volume examines the commensal politics of early states and empires and offers a comparative perspective on how food and feasting have figured in the political calculus of archaic states in both the Old and New Worlds. It provides a cross-cultural and comparative analysis for scholars and graduate students concerned with the archaeology of complex societies, the anthropology of food and feasting, ancient statecraft, archaeological approaches to micro-political processes, and the social interpretation of prehistoric pottery.
Feast
Author | : Roy Strong,Roy C. Strong |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : UOM:39015055850500 |
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"Toenails cut while dining, meals served to wax effigies of the dead, napkins concealing singing birds, dishes descending from the ceiling - these are just a few of the more exotic aspects of everyman at table. From the stupendous banquets of the Ancient Babylonians, Feast covers five millennia of formal eating." "Feast offers a fascinating and, at times, highly unusual mirror of society. It gathers together for the first time all the ingredients which contributed to the phenomenon of the celebratory meal: the people, the clothes, the food, the setting, the action and its circumstances." "In an age which has virtually abolished the shared meal as a central feature of daily living, Feast presents a revelatory picture of a world we have lost. Beautifully illustrated, it traces fashions in food and the etiquette of eating, taking the reader from the elegancies of the Roman villa to the austerities of the monastic refectory, from the splendours of the Renaissance banquet to the rigours of the Victorian dinner party."--Jacket.
The Never ending Feast
Author | : Kaori O'Connor |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2015-02-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781847889270 |
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Feast! Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts – dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through long straws of gold and lapis, immense cauldrons from which hundreds of people could be served. Why were feasts so important, and is there more to feasting than abundance and enjoyment? The Never-Ending Feast is a pioneering work that draws on anthropology, archaeology and history to look at the dynamics of feasting among the great societies of antiquity renowned for their magnificence and might. Reflecting new directions in academic study, the focus shifts beyond the medieval and early modern periods in Western Europe, eastwards to Mesopotamia, Assyria and Achaemenid Persia, early Greece, the Mongol Empire, Shang China and Heian Japan. The past speaks through texts and artefacts. We see how feasts were the primary arena for displays of hierarchy, status and power; a stage upon which loyalties and alliances were negotiated; the occasion for the mobilization and distribution of resources, a means of pleasing the gods, and the place where identities were created, consolidated – and destroyed. The Never-Ending Feast transforms our understanding of feasting past and present, revitalising the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, museum studies, material culture and food studies, for all of which it is essential reading.