Foodways of the Ancient Andes

This book PDF is perfect for those who love Health & Fitness genre, written by Marta P Alfonso-Durruty and published by University of Arizona Press which was released on 18 April 2023 with total hardcover pages 385. You could read this book directly on your devices with pdf, epub and kindle format, check detail and related Foodways of the Ancient Andes books below.

Foodways of the Ancient Andes

Author	: Marta P Alfonso-Durruty
File Size	: 44,5 Mb
Publisher	: University of Arizona Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 18 April 2023
ISBN	: 9780816548699
Pages	: 385 pages

Get Book

Foodways of the Ancient Andes by Marta P Alfonso-Durruty Book PDF Summary

"Exploring the multiple social, ecological, cultural, and ontological dimensions of food in the Andean past, this book offers a diverse set of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that reveal the richness, sophistication, and ingenuity of Andean peoples. With 44 contributors from 10 countries, the studies presented in this volume employ new analytical methods, integrating different food data and interdisciplinary research to show how food impacts socio-political relationships and ontologies that are otherwise invisible in the archaeological record"--

Foodways of the Ancient Andes by Marta P Alfonso-Durruty,Deborah E Blom

Get Book

Foodways of the Ancient Andes by Marta P Alfonso-Durruty,Deborah E Blom

Eating is essential for life, but it also embodies social and symbolic dimensions. This volume shows how foods and peoples were mutually transformed in the ancient Andes. Exploring the multiple social, ecological, cultural, and ontological dimensions of food in the Andean past, the contributors of Foodways of the Ancient Andes

Get Book

Andean Foodways by John E. Staller

There is widespread acknowledgement among anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnobotanists, as well as researchers in related disciplines that specific foods and cuisines are linked very strongly to the formation and maintenance of cultural identity and ethnicity. Strong associations of foodways with culture are particularly characteristic of South American Andean cultures. Food and

Get Book

Andean Foodways by John E. Staller

Get Book

Diet Nutrition and Foodways on the North Coast of Peru by Bethany L. Turner,Haagen D. Klaus

This book synthesizes in-depth bioarchaeological research into diet, subsistence regimes, and nutrition—and corresponding insights into adaptation, suffering, and resilience—among indigenous north-coastal Peruvian communities from early agricultural through European colonial periods. The Spanish invasion and colonization of Andean South America left millions dead, landscapes transformed, and traditional ways of

Get Book

Food Power and Resistance in the Andes by Alison Krögel

Food, Power, and Resistance explores the ways in which artistic representations of food and cooks often convey subversive meanings that resist attempts to locate indigenous Andeans-and Quechua women in particular-at the margins of power. This book offers a dynamic, interdisciplinary study of how food's symbolic and pragmatic meanings influence access

Get Book

The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires by Tamara L. Bray

This volume examines the commensal politics of early states and empires and offers a comparative perspective on how food and feasting have figured in the political calculus of archaic states in both the Old and New Worlds. It provides a cross-cultural and comparative analysis for scholars and graduate students concerned

Get Book

Pre Columbian Foodways by John Staller,Michael Carrasco

The significance of food and feasting to Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures has been extensively studied by archaeologists, anthropologists and art historians. Foodways studies have been critical to our understanding of early agriculture, political economies, and the domestication and management of plants and animals. Scholars from diverse fields have explored the symbolic

Get Book