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The Power of Feasts
Language: en
Pages: 439
Authors: Brian Hayden
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in societies ranging from the prehistoric to the modern
Feasts
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Michael Dietler
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-30 - Publisher: University of Alabama Press

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In this collection of fifteen essays, archaeologists and ethnographers explore the material record of food and its consumption as social practice.
Raiding, Trading, and Feasting
Language: en
Pages: 500
Authors: Laura L. Junker
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-09-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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As early as the first millennium A.D., the Philippine archipelago formed the easternmost edge of a vast network of Chinese, Southeast Asian, Indian, and Arab tr
Tribal and Chiefly Warfare in South America
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Elsa M. Redmond
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-01-01 - Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

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This book presents new data on warfare from both ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources. The author documents principal differences between tribal and chiefly w
Privileging the Past
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Judith Ostrowitz
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: UBC Press

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Ostrowitz is an art historian and an artist who lives in New York, is affiliated with Yale University, and is a former assistant curator at the Brooklyn Museum