Feast
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the earliest evidence of human consumption around half a million years ago to the era of the TV dinner and the drive-through diner, this fascinating account unfolds the history of the human meal and its huge impact both on human society and the ecology of the planet.
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From the earliest evidence of human consumption around half a million years ago to the era of the TV dinner and the drive-through diner, this fascinating account unfolds the history of the human meal and its huge impact both on human society and the ecology of the planet.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Feast “
1. A return to the hearth; 2. Are we so different? How apes eat; 3. In search of big game; 4. Fire, cooking, and growing a brain; 5. Naming and eating; 6. Among strangers; 7. Seasons of the feast; 8. Hierarchy and the food chain; 9. Eating in order to be; 10. Far from the hearth; 11. The stomach and the soul; 12. A global food web
Autoren-Porträt von Martin Jones
Martin Jones is George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Cambridge, and specializes in the study of the fragmentary archaeological remains of early food. In the 1990s he was Chairman of the Ancient Biomolecule Initiative that pioneered some of the most important new methods of archaeological science used in such research. His previous books include The Molecule Hunt: archaeology and the search for ancient DNA, published byPenguin.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Martin Jones
- 380 Seiten, 3 Abbildungen, Maße: 16,2 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199209014
- ISBN-13: 9780199209019
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.03.2007
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Feast “
concrete and compelling Paul Levy, TLS Wonderful - don't miss it for the world. Elisabeth Luard, The Scotsman This is a mould-cracker of a book, as readable as any thriller. Elisabeth Luard, Literary Review Will delight most anthropologists and evolutionary biologists, as well as broadly educated laypersons interested in the evolution of diet and the social organisation of eating...[a] captivating narrative. Gary Paul Nabhan, Nature A lively, wide-ranging study. The Scotsman Jones offers much that is both fascinating and illuminating. Kate Colquhoun, The Telegraph (Review)
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