Archaeology of Food - An Encyclopedia

Informationen zum Autor Karen Bescherer Metheny is visiting researcher of archaeology at Boston University. She is author of From the Miners' Doublehouse (2007) and co-editor of Landscape Archaeology (1996, with Rebecca Yamin). She has taught courses in the anthropology and archaeology of food, food history and food culture of New England, and method and theory in food studies. Her current research interests center on the use of food mapping and other visualization techniques, and the cultural significance of maize in colonial New England.Mary C. Beaudry is professor of archaeology, anthropology, and gastronomy at Boston University. She is author or co-editor of numerous published works including Findings (2006), Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement (2013, co-edited with Travis Parno), and The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies (2010, co-edited with Dan Hicks). She currently teaches a course called Pots & Pans: The Material Culture of Cookery & Dining in which she has combined her interests in foodways and material culture to focus on technological and material change in the kitchen and at the table. Klappentext This indispensable resource provides an illustrated introduction to and overview of the archaeological study of food and foodways today. Zusammenfassung This indispensable resource provides an illustrated introduction to and overview of the archaeological study of food and foodways today.

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• Authors: Karen Bescherer Beaudry Metheny
• Assisted by: Mary C Beaudry (Editor), Mary C. Beaudry (Editor), Karen Bescherer Metheny (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2015
• EAN: 9780759123649
• ISBN: 978-0-7591-2364-9
• No. of pages: 702
• Series: Archaeology of Food; Archaeology of Food
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General cookery books, basic cookery books; Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works