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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Development of Horticulture in the Eastern Woodlands of North America: Women’s Role
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Concluding Remarks
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Front Matter
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Epilogue
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The contributors provide important new insights into the strategies of early statecraft and the role of pots as political tools by focusing on questions such as:
-What was the nature of the relationship between food, power, status, and identity in the context of early states?
-Was feasting a universally important element in the construction of state power?
-How do archaeologically discernible patterns of state feasting compare cross-culturally and through time?
Keywords
- Archaic period in North America
- Mesopotamia
- Vor- und Frühgeschichte
- archaic states
- manners
Editors and Affiliations
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Wayne State University, Detroit
Tamara L. Bray
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires
Editors: Tamara L. Bray
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b100538
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47730-0Published: 31 July 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47771-3Published: 31 July 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-48246-5Published: 28 May 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 292
Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology, History, general