Christine A. Hastorf (Berkeley University of California)

Broschiertes Buch

The Social Archaeology of Food

Beschreibung

This book offers a global perspective on the role food has played in shaping human societies, through both individual and collective identity. It integrates ethnographic and archaeological case studies from the European and Near Eastern Neolithic, Han China, ancient Cahokia, Inka societies and the Classic Maya.

Autor

Christine A. Hastorf is known for her contributions to palaeoethnobotany, agriculture, meaning and the everyday, food studies, political economy, and ritual in middle-range societies of the Andean region of South America. She has written and edited many articles and books, and has completed fieldwork in Mexico, California, New Mexico, Italy, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, Turkey and England. She oversees an archaeobotanical laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley and directs an archaeological project in Bolivia. At the 2012 Society for American Archaeology meetings, she was awarded the Fryxell Award for Excellence in the Botanical Sciences in Archaeology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781316607251
• ISBN-10: 1316607259
• Artikelnr.: 50022844