Feasts : archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on food, politics, and power /
From the ancient Near East to modern-day North America, communal consumption of food and drink punctuates the rhythms of human societies. Feasts serve many social purposes, establishing alliances for war and marriage, mobilizing labor, creating political power and economic advantages, and redistribu...
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
2010
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