The power of feasts : from prehistory to the present /

Main Author: Hayden, Brian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014
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Table of Contents:
  • Before the feast : overview of the importance of feasting
  • Food sharing and the primate foundations of feasting behavior by Suzanne Villeneuve
  • Simple hunter/gatherers
  • Transegalitarian hunter/gatherers
  • Domesticating plants and animals for feasts
  • The horticultural explosion
  • Chiefs up the ante
  • The first states
  • Feasting in industrial societies