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Commensality : from everyday food to feast

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Notes on Contributors 1) Introduction, Susanne Kerner (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Cynthia Chou (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Part 1. Everyday Commensality 2) Commensality and the Organization of Social Relations, C.B. Tan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) 3) Commensal Circles and the Common Pot, Penny van Esterik (York University, Canada)4) Commensality between the Young, Boris Andersen (Aalborg University, Denmark) 5) Activism through Commensality: Food and Politics in a Temporary Vegan Zone, Yve le Grand (University of Lisbon, Portugal) 6) Cooking in the 4th Millennium BCE: Investigating the Social via the Material, Maria Bianca D'Anna (Eberhard Karls University, Germany) and Carolin Jauss (Free University Berlin, Germany) Part 2. Special Commensality 7) Methodological and Definitional Issues in the Archaeology of Food, Katheryn Twiss (Stony Brook University, USA)8) Medieval and Modern Banquets: Commensality and Social Categorization, Paul Freedman (Yale University, USA) 9) Ritual Feasting at Domuztepe, Alexandra Fletcher (British Museum, UK) and Stuart Campbell (University of Manchester, UK)10) Drink and Commensality, or How to Hold onto Your Drink in the Chalcolithic, Susanne Kerner (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Part 3. The Social and Political Aspects of Commensality11) How Chicken Rice Informs about Identity, Cynthia Chou (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 12) Feasting on Locusts and Truffles in the 2nd Millenium BCE, Hanne Nyman (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 13) Commensality and Sharing in an Andean Community in Bolivia, Cornelia A. Nell (University of St Andrews, UK)14) Dissolved in Liquor and Life: Drinkers and Drinking Cultures in Mo Yan's Novel, Liquorland, Astrid Muller-Olsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 15) Justifications for Foodways and the Study of Commensality, Jordan Rosenblum (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) 16) The Role of Food in the Life of Christians in the Roman Empire, Morten Warmind (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 17) Ritual Meals and Polemics in Antiquity, Anne Ingvil Gilhus (University of Bergen, Norway) Notes Bibliography Index.

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Commensality : from everyday food to feast. ISBN 9780857857361. Published by Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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