TY - BOOK ID - 80823525 TI - Humans, animals, and the craft of slaughter in archaeo-historic societies PY - 2019 SN - 9781108553544 9781108428804 9781108447317 1108428800 1108575293 1108553540 1108581633 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Slaughtering and slaughter-houses KW - Meat industry and trade KW - Meat consumption KW - Packing industry KW - Food industry and trade KW - Abattoirs KW - Butchering KW - Public institutions KW - History KW - Animal remains (Archaeology) KW - Archaeozoology KW - Zooarchaeology KW - Zoology in archaeology KW - Archaeology KW - Bones KW - Animal paleopathology KW - History. KW - Methodology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80823525 AB - In this book, Krish Seetah uses butchery as a point of departure for exploring the changing historical relationships between animal utility, symbolism, and meat consumption. Seetah brings together several bodies of literature - on meat, cut marks, craftspeople, and the role of craft in production - that have heretofore been considered in isolation from one another. Focusing on the activity inherent in butcher, he describes the history of knowledge that typifies the craft. He also provides anthropological and archaeological case studies which showcase examples of butchery practices in varied contexts that are seldom identified with zooarchaeological research. Situating the relationship between practice, practitioner, material and commodity, this imaginative study offers new insights into food production, consumption, and the craft of cuisine. ER -