Exploring the Materiality of Food 'Stuffs': Transformations, Symbolic Consumption and Embodiments

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Louise Steel Katharina Zinn

Exploring the Materiality of Food 'Stuffs'

Transformations, Symbolic Consumption and Embodiments

Louise Steel, Katharina Zinn

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Routledge
24 November 2016

Archaeological methodology & techniques; Anthropology

Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

From remote antiquity to contemporary contexts, food and the ‘stuff’ of food remains central to people’s daily experiences as well as their sense and expression of identity. This volume explores the materiality of foodstuffs past and present, examining humanity’s intriguingly complex relationships with, and experiences of, food. The book also makes a fresh contribution to our understanding of materiality through a novel focus on material culture, analysing objects used to prepare, wrap, serve and consume food and the tactile experiences involved in its production and consumption. Considering a wide range of cultures, spanning from ancient China to modern-day Kenya, this broad collection of interdisciplinary chapters reveal the multiple interplays between foods, bodies, material worlds, rituals and embodied knowledge that emerge from these encounters and which, in turn, shape the material culture of food. Exploring the Materiality of Food 'Stuffs' makes an important contribution to this burgeoning field and will be of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists working in the key area of food research.

Edited by: Louise Steel, Katharina Zinn
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 730g
ISBN: 9781138941199
ISBN 10: 1138941190
Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology
Pages: 292
Publication Date: 24 November 2016
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Louise Steel is Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. Katharina Zinn is Senior Lecturer for Egyptian Archaeology and Heritage at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David.