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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 October 2014
      29 September 2014
      ISBN:
      9781107337688
      9781107042995
      9781107617643
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107337688
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.05kg, 440 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.93kg, 435 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Prehistory, History, Archaeology, Global History
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    In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in pre-industrial societies. As an important barometer of cultural change, feasting is at the forefront of theoretical developments in archaeology. The Power of Feasts chronicles the evolution of the practice from its first perceptible prehistoric presence to modern industrial times. This study explores recurring patterns in the dynamics of feasts as well as linkages to other aspects of culture such as food, personhood, cognition, power, politics, and economics. Analyzing detailed ethnographic and archaeological observations from a wide variety of cultures, including Oceania and Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Eurasia, Hayden illuminates the role of feasts as an invaluable insight into the social and political structures of past societies.

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    ‘Hayden touches on a huge variety of themes of the broadest interest and importance, from domestication to state formation, and religion to prostitution (the latter two sometimes simultaneously) … His book pulls together decades of personal research integrated into an overarching and compelling account of nothing less than feasting as human history.’

    Robert Witcher Source: Antiquity

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    • 8 - Feasting in Early States and Empires
      pp 296-346
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