Commensality: from everyday food to feast

Susanne Kerner (Editor), Cynthia Gek Hua Chou (Editor), Morten Warmind (Editor)

Abstract

Commensality is a fundamental social activity. Research in this book comes from anthropology, archaeology and history, and reaches from the 6th mill BC to modern days, dealing with topics such as feasting, the inaugural dinner of the American president and breast feeding.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
Number of pages277
ISBN (Print)978-0-8578-5680-7, 978-0-8578-5736-1
ISBN (Electronic)978-0-8578-5719-4, 978-0-8578-5729-3
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2015

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Food
  • Commensality
  • Social Archaeology

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