The Never-ending Feast

Released on by Kaori O'Connor
preview-18

  • The Never-ending Feast Book Detail

  • Author : Kaori O'Connor
  • Release Date : 2015-02-26
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 250
  • ISBN 13 : 1847889271
  • File Size : 78,78 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Never-ending Feast by Kaori O'Connor PDF Summary

Book Description: Feast! Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of countless ghostly feasts – dishes that once bore rich meats, pitchers used to pour choice wines, tall jars that held beer sipped through long straws of gold and lapis, immense cauldrons from which hundreds of people could be served. Why were feasts so important, and is there more to feasting than abundance and enjoyment? The Never-Ending Feast is a pioneering work that draws on anthropology, archaeology and history to look at the dynamics of feasting among the great societies of antiquity renowned for their magnificence and might. Reflecting new directions in academic study, the focus shifts beyond the medieval and early modern periods in Western Europe, eastwards to Mesopotamia, Assyria and Achaemenid Persia, early Greece, the Mongol Empire, Shang China and Heian Japan. The past speaks through texts and artefacts. We see how feasts were the primary arena for displays of hierarchy, status and power; a stage upon which loyalties and alliances were negotiated; the occasion for the mobilization and distribution of resources, a means of pleasing the gods, and the place where identities were created, consolidated – and destroyed. The Never-Ending Feast transforms our understanding of feasting past and present, revitalising the fields of anthropology, archaeology, history, museum studies, material culture and food studies, for all of which it is essential reading.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Never-ending Feast books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Never-ending Feast

The Never-ending Feast

File Size : 37,37 MB
Total View : 8563 Views
DOWNLOAD

Feast! Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of

The Never-ending Feast

The Never-ending Feast

File Size : 81,81 MB
Total View : 1800 Views
DOWNLOAD

Feast! Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. The great museums of the world are full of the remains of

A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast

File Size : 12,12 MB
Total View : 1022 Views
DOWNLOAD

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legac

The Feast

The Feast

File Size : 76,76 MB
Total View : 7385 Views
DOWNLOAD

"Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist." —Anita Brookner Summer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumble