TY - BOOK ID - 77888574 TI - Feasts : archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on food, politics, and power AU - Dietler, Michael. AU - Hayden, Brian. PY - 2010 SN - 081738538X 9780817385385 9780817356415 081735641X PB - Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, DB - UniCat KW - Fasts and feasts KW - Festivals KW - Church festivals KW - Ecclesiastical fasts and feasts KW - Fast days KW - Feast days KW - Feasts KW - Heortology KW - Holy days KW - Religious festivals KW - Christian antiquities KW - Days KW - Fasting KW - Liturgics KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Theology, Practical KW - Church calendar KW - Holidays KW - Sacred meals KW - Manners and customs KW - Anniversaries KW - Pageants KW - Processions KW - Religious aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888574 AB - 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 redistributing wealth. In this collection of fifteen essays, archaeologists and ethnographers explore the material record of food and its consumption as social practice. They examine the locations of roasting pits, hearths, and refuse deposits, or the presence of special decorative ceramics, a ER -