Forging Communities

Forging Communities
Author :
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages : 287
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781610756426
ISBN-13 : 1610756428
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Forging Communities by : Montserrat Piera

Download or read book Forging Communities written by Montserrat Piera and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forging Communities explores the importance of the cultivation, provision, trade, and exchange of foods and beverages to mankind’s technological advancement, violent conquest, and maritime exploration. The thirteen essays here show how the sharing of food and drink forged social, religious, and community bonds, and how ceremonial feasts as well as domestic daily meals strengthened ties and solidified ethnoreligious identity through the sharing of food customs. The very act of eating and the pleasure derived from it are metaphorically linked to two other sublime activities of the human experience: sexuality and the search for the divine. This interdisciplinary study of food in medieval and early modern communities connects threads of history conventionally examined separately or in isolation. The intersection of foodstuffs with politics, religion, economics, and culture enhances our understanding of historical developments and cultural continuities through the centuries, giving insight that today, as much as in the past, we are what we eat and what we eat is never devoid of meaning.


Forging Communities Related Books

Forging Communities
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Montserrat Piera
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-15 - Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Forging Communities explores the importance of the cultivation, provision, trade, and exchange of foods and beverages to mankind’s technological advancement,
Forging Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Gary B. Nash
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is the first to trace the fortunes of the earliest large free black community in the U.S. Nash shows how black Philadelphians struggled to shape a fam
Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Kathleen L. Hull
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-16 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Between 1769 and 1834, an influx of Spanish, Russian, and then American colonists streamed into Alta California seeking new opportunities. Their arrival brought
The Forging of a Black Community
Language: en
Pages: 427
Authors: Quintard Taylor
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-07 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He left in the early 1870s to
Forging Chivalric Communities in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: K. Hodges
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-04 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Forging Chivalric Communities in Marlory's Morte D'Arthur shows that Malory treats chivalry not as a static institution but as a dynamic, continually evolving i