Exploring the Materiality of Food ''Stuffs'' Transformations, Symbolic Consumption and Embodiments

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Zusammenfassung

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

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Louise Steel (Herausgeber), Katharina Zinn (Herausgeber), Steel Louise (Herausgeber), Zinn Katharina (Herausgeber)
• Autoren: Louise Zinn Steel
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.12.2019
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein
• EAN: 9780367874292
• ISBN: 978-0-367-87429-2
• Anzahl Seiten: 292
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Archaeology
• Themen: Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology, Archaeological science, methodology & techniques, Archaeological science, methodology and techniques, embodied knowledge, material culture analysis, cross-cultural consumption, sensory experience in food archaeology, ritual food practices, ancient foodways, archaeological food studies