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Feast : why humans share food /

"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...

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Main Author: Jones, Martin, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2007.
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Centrum för Invandringsforskning > Stockholm > Forskningsgruppen för Studier av Etniska Relationer, Social Kognition och Tvärkulturell Psykologi
Geschichte.
Dinners and dining.
Food habits.
Habitudes alimentaires.
73.25 food and food preparation (ethnology)
15.99 history: other.
Hábitos alimentarios.
Ernährungsgewohnheit.
Ess- und Trinksitte
Mensch
Sozialverhalten
Speise
Fest
Eetcultuur.
Maaltijden.
Archeologische aspecten.
Matkultur.
Matvanor.
Essen
Internet resource.
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Table of 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.

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