Feast : why humans share food / Martin Jones
2007, First Edition. New York, NY : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #241538
Provenance; from the library of the noted food critic Hugo Dunn-Meynell with his bookplate. Physical description; xiii, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Review Copy. Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-342) and index. Contents; A return to the hearth -- Are we so different? : how apes eat -- In search of big game -- Fire, cooking, and growing a brain -- Naming and eating -- Among strangers -- Seasons of the feast -- Hierarchy and the food chain -- Eating in order to be -- Far from the hearth -- The stomach and the soul -- A global food web. Summary; In Feast, Martin Jones reconstructs the development of the meal, with the help of the latest archaeological techniques: from chimpanzees at a kill to university professors at a formal feast, from a Roman banquet to the TV dinner and the drive-through diner. Spanning half a million years, this account reveals the history of the meal and its huge impact both on the society and the ecology of the planet. Subjects; Dinners and dining. Food habits. Dinners and dining — History. Food habits — History. Dinners and dining. Food habits. Food. Symbolism. Social Psychology. Interpersonal Relations. Cookery / food & drink etc. Archaeology ; History ; Social & cultural anthropology. Social Science / Anthropology / General. Social Science / Customs & Traditions. Cooking / History. Food habits ; Dinners and dining. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.
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