Preston Miracle - Consuming Passions and Patterns of Consumption torrent

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Book Title: Consuming Passions and Patterns of Consumption (Monograph Series)
Book Author: Nick Milner (Editor), Preston Miracle (Editor)
Series: Monograph Series
Hardcover: 271 pages
Publisher: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; 1st edition (May 1, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0951942085
ISBN-13: 978-0951942086

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Book Description
This volume outlines and illustrates the importance of considering social contexts of food consumption in interpretations of past and present human societies, giving a new twist to the old adage 'You are what you eat'. What we eat, how we eat, are and always have been fundamental to the structuring of social life, both in the past and in the present. The remains of food are also among the most common archaeological finds. The papers in this volume explore and develop ways of using food to write social history; they move beyond taphonomic and economic properties of 'subsistence resources' to examine the social background and cultural contexts of food preparation and consumption. Contributions break new ground in method and interpretation in case studies spanning the Palaeolithic to the Present, and from the Amazon to the Arctic. This volume will thus be essential reading for all archaeologists, anthropologists and social historians interested in the prehistory and history of food consumption.
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