Consuming passions and patterns of consumption
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Consuming passions and patterns of consumption
（McDonald Institute monographs）
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, c2002
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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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Patterning Data and Consuming Theory (N Milner and P Miracle)
- Cooking in Zooarchaeology: Is this Issue Still Raw? (S Monton Subias)
- Food, Status and Social Hierarchy (A Grant)
- The Distribution of Meat in a Hierarchical Society: the Irish Evidence (F McCormick)
- A Passion for Pork: Meat Consumption at the British Late Neolithic Site of Durrington Walls (U Albarella and D Serjeantson)
- Bone Fracture and Within-bone Nutrients: an Experimentally Based Method for Investigating Levels of Marrow Extraction (A K Outram)
- Mesolithic Meals from Mesolithic Middens (P Miracle)
- Oysters, Cockles and Kitchenmiddens: Changing Practices at the Mesolithic/Neolithic Transition (N Milner)
- Prudent Producers and Concerned Consumers: Ethnographic and Historical Observations on Staple Storage and Urban Consumer Behaviour (H Forbes)
- Archaeological Correlates of Ideological Activity: Food Taboos and Spirit-animals in an Amazonian Hunter-gatherer Society (G G Politis and N J Saunders)
- Conclusion: Eating for Calories or for Company? Concluding Remarks on Consuming Passions (M Jones).
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