The never-ending feast : the anthropology and archaeology of feasting /

"Human life is a never-ending feast. Throughout history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been the primary arena for displays of hierarchy, status and power; a stage upon which loyalties and alliances are negotiated; the occasion for the mobilization and distribution of resources, and...

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Author / Creator: O'Connor, Kaori.
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Illustrations
  • 1. Introduction: Invitation to the Feast
  • 2. Mesopotamia: The Pursuit of Abundance
  • 3. The Assyrians and Achaemenid Persians: Empires of Feasting
  • 4. The Greeks: Now Let Us Hasten to the Feast
  • 5. Eurasia: The Mongols-An Empire Built on Drinking
  • 6. China: The Hidden History of Chinese Feasting
  • 7. Japan: Banqueting Beyond a Bridge of Dreams
  • 8. Epilogue: After the Feast
  • References and Bibliography
  • Index