This volume explores the materiality of foodstuffs past and present, examining humanity's intriguingly complex relationships with, and experiences of, food. The book also expands our understanding of materiality through a fresh focus on material culture, analysing objects used to prepare, wrap, serve and consume food and the tactile experie
This volume explores the materiality of foodstuffs past and present, examining humanity's intriguingly complex relationships with, and experiences of, food. The book also expands our understanding of materiality through a fresh focus on material culture, analysing objects used to prepare, wrap, serve and consume food and the tactile experie
Louise Steel is Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. Katharina Zinn is Senior Lecturer for Egyptian Archaeology and Heritage at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: exploring the materiality of food 'stuffs': transformations, embodiment and ritualized consumption LOUISE STEEL AND KATHARINA ZINN PART ONE: TRANSFORMATIONS 2. From raw resources to food processing: archaeobotanical and ethnographic insights from New Kingdom Amara West and present-day Ernetta Island in Northern Sudan PHILIPPA RYAN 3. The domestication of innovation: advertizing strategies for canned foods in the Netherlands, 1945-1985 JON VERRIET 4. Our 'daily bread': the origins of grinding grain and breadmaking BRIAN HAYDEN, LAURIE NIXON-DARCUS AND LOGAN ANSELL 5. Bodies of water: exploring water flows in rural Kenya LUCI ATTALA PART TWO: EMBODIED ENCOUNTERS6. Embodied spirituality and self-divinization: A re-reading of the Legend of Princess Miaoshan THOMAS JANSEN 7. Permaculture: discovering nature, designing ecologies ELAINE FORDE 8. The logistics of bread production in Old Kingdom Egypt: A nutritional perspective CLAIRE MALLESON 9. 'Everyday' foodways and social connections in Pompeian houses PENELOPE ALLISON PART THREE: SYMBOLIC CONSUMPTION 10. Sumptuous feasting in the ancient Near East: exploring the materiality of the Royal Tombs of Ur LOUISE STEEL 11. Lacklustre offering plates? Symbolic food consumption, ritual, and representations in ancient Egyptian funerary culture KATHARINA ZINN 12. The materiality of ecstatic ritual: altered states of consciousness and ritual in Late Bronze Age Cyprus DAVID COLLARD 13. Ritual and daily life in the Chinese Bronze Age: foodstuffs and bodies in depositional context at Yanshi Shangcheng KATRINKA REINHART 14. The ambiguous (but important) materiality of food. RICHARD WILK
1. Introduction: exploring the materiality of food 'stuffs': transformations, embodiment and ritualized consumption LOUISE STEEL AND KATHARINA ZINN PART ONE: TRANSFORMATIONS 2. From raw resources to food processing: archaeobotanical and ethnographic insights from New Kingdom Amara West and present-day Ernetta Island in Northern Sudan PHILIPPA RYAN 3. The domestication of innovation: advertizing strategies for canned foods in the Netherlands, 1945-1985 JON VERRIET 4. Our 'daily bread': the origins of grinding grain and breadmaking BRIAN HAYDEN, LAURIE NIXON-DARCUS AND LOGAN ANSELL 5. Bodies of water: exploring water flows in rural Kenya LUCI ATTALA PART TWO: EMBODIED ENCOUNTERS6. Embodied spirituality and self-divinization: A re-reading of the Legend of Princess Miaoshan THOMAS JANSEN 7. Permaculture: discovering nature, designing ecologies ELAINE FORDE 8. The logistics of bread production in Old Kingdom Egypt: A nutritional perspective CLAIRE MALLESON 9. 'Everyday' foodways and social connections in Pompeian houses PENELOPE ALLISON PART THREE: SYMBOLIC CONSUMPTION 10. Sumptuous feasting in the ancient Near East: exploring the materiality of the Royal Tombs of Ur LOUISE STEEL 11. Lacklustre offering plates? Symbolic food consumption, ritual, and representations in ancient Egyptian funerary culture KATHARINA ZINN 12. The materiality of ecstatic ritual: altered states of consciousness and ritual in Late Bronze Age Cyprus DAVID COLLARD 13. Ritual and daily life in the Chinese Bronze Age: foodstuffs and bodies in depositional context at Yanshi Shangcheng KATRINKA REINHART 14. The ambiguous (but important) materiality of food. RICHARD WILK
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