The never-ending feast : the anthropology and archaeology of feasting / Kaori O'Connor.
The never-ending feast : the anthropology and archaeology of feasting / Kaori O'Connor.
The never-ending feast : the anthropology and archaeology of feasting / Kaori O'Connor.
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London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
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G 2015/1249
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English
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x, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction : Invitation to the Feast -- Mesopotamia : The Pursuit of Abundance -- The Assyrians and Achaemenid Persians : Empires of Feasting -- The Greeks : Now Let Us Hasten to the Feast -- Eurasia : The Mongols, an Empire Built on Drinking -- China : the Hidden History of Chinese Feasting -- Ja...
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London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
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England
Date Published
2015.
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"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 the place where identities are created and consolidate...
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The never-ending feast : the anthropology and archaeology of feasting / Kaori O'Connor.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2015/1249
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74VKOjZLlK8b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKOjZLlK8b
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1847889255 (paperback)
9781847889263 (hardback)
1847889263 (hardback)
9781847889256 (paperback)
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394.1209
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991022611689702626
