FOOD AND CULTURE

Feasts Poster for Oklahoma Indian Ballerina Feast, n.d., Painting by Acee Blue Eagle, 1907-1959, Creek-Pawnee Festivals

Aklujkar V (1992) Sharing the Divine Feast: Evolution of Food Metaphor in Marathi Sant. in RS Khare (ed) Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists. State University of New York Press, pp. 95-115 [history; symbolism; feasts; South Asia; India; Marathi].

Benet S (1970) Festive Recipes and Festival Menus [feasts; recipes; menus].

Bower B (1998) Banquets in the Ruins. Science News. 153:131-133 [feasts; prehistory; archaeology].

Buitelaar M (1993) Fasting and Feasting in Morocco: Women's Participation in Ramadan. Berg [religious fast; feast; Islam; Muslim; North Africa; Morocco].

Caplan P (1992) Feasts, Fasts, Famine: Food for Thought. Berg Occasional Papers in Anthropology (inaugural lecture, Goldsmith's College, 1992) [feasting; fasting; mass starvation].

Carlin M; Rosenthal JT (1998) Food and Eating in Medieval Europe. Hambleton Press [collected essays; history; feasts; famine; food habits; Europe].

Chakraborty DK (1992) Turtle Eating Ceremony among the Great Andamese. Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India. 41:11-17 [feast; food use; symbol and meaning; South Asia; India; Adaman Islands].

Codere H (1950) Fighting with Property: A Study of Kwakiutl Potlatching and Warfare. American Ethnological Society [feast; food redistribution; Recommended -- click for detailsNorth American Indian; Kwakiutl].

Cosman M (1976) Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and Ceremony [history; feasts; Europe].

Day I (2000) Eat, Drink, and Be Merry -- the British at the Table, 1600-2000. Wilson [history; social life; food habits; feasting; breakfast; tea time; drinking customs; Europe; England].

Recommended -- click for detailsDietler M (1996) Feasts and Commensal Politics in the Political Economy. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 87-125 [prehistory; feasting; social relations; Western Europe].

Dietler M; Hayden B (2001) Feasts: Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on Food, Politics, and Power. Smithsonian Institution Press [collected essays; food and ritual; festival; prehistory; social relations].

Douglas M (1984) Food in the Social Order: Studies of Food and Festivities in Three American Communities. In M Recommended -- click for detailsDouglas (ed) Food in the Social Order [social relations; celebration; calendar; theory; complexity of foodways].

Recommended -- click for detailsFaas P (2002) Around the Table of the Romans: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome. Palgrave Macmillan Press [history; festival; Europe].

Farquhar J (2002) Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China. Duke University Press [health & medicine; social identity; feasting; self & collectivity; East Asia; China].

Graham A (1983) Let's Eat!" Committment and Communion in Cooperative Households". in M Jones (ed) Foodways and Eating Habits. Folklore Society of California [social relations; feast; secular communion; North America; United States].

Hanchett S (1975) Hindu Potlatches: Ceremonial Reciprocity and Prestige in Karnataka. in HE Ullrich (ed) Competition and Modernization in South Asia. Abhinav, pp. 27-59 [feasts; social relations; prestige; South Asia; India].

Harris M (1977) Cannibals and Kings [feasts; communion; sacrifice].

Recommended -- click for detailsHayden B (1996) Feasting in Prehistoric and Traditional Societies. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 127-147 [feasts and celebrations; social relations; archaeology; ethnology].

Henish B (1976) Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society [history; fasting; feasts; foodways; Europe].

Hudgins S (1990) Texas Barbecue: A Feast for All Classes. in H Walker (ed) Feasting and Fasting: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. Prospect Books, pp. 106-120 [feasting; North America; United States].

Hudgins S (1996) Raw Liver and More: Feasting with the Buriats of Southern Siberia. in H Walker (ed) Food on the Move: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1996. Prospect Books, pp. 136-156 [feasts; North Asia].

Recommended -- click for detailsHudgins S (2003) A Trinity of Siberian Easter Season Meals. Anthropology of East Europe Review. 21:17-26 [feasts; North Asia; Siberia].

Hudgins S (2004) The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East. Texas A&M University Press [feast; festivals; North Asia; Russia; Buriats].

Humphrey TC; Lin T (1988) 'We Gather Together': Food and Festival in American Life. UMI Press [festival; collected papers; North America].

Kraig B, producer (VHS 1999) Food for the Ancestors. [holiday; feast; religion; Mexico].

LeCount LJ (2001) Like Water for Chocolate: Feasting and Political Ritual among the Late Classic Maya at Xunantunich, Belize. American Anthropologist. 103:935-953 [food and festival; prehistory; Central America].

Lemonnier P (1996) Food, Competition, and the Status of Food in New Guinea. in P Wiessner; W Schiefenhovel (eds) Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn, pp. 219-234 [social relations; pig feasts; Oceania].

Linton R (1949) We Gather Together: The Story of Thanksgiving. Shuman [feast; North America; United States].

Lupton D (1994) Food, Memory and Meaning: The Symbolic and Social Nature of Food Events. Sociological Review. 42:664-686 [symbolic meaning; feasts and festivals].

Mason L (2000) Food and the Rites of Passage [collected papers; history; life crisis; ritual; feasts; social life; Europe; England; Ireland].

McGowan A (1999) Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals. Clarendon Press [history; feast; religion; symbols].

Metraux GS (1976) Of Feasts and Carnivals. Cultures. 3:7-12 [feasting].

Recommended -- click for detailsNewall V (1973) An Egg at Easter: A Folklore Study. Indiana University Press [Easter feast and festival; egg; history; folklore; symbolic meaning].

Pollington S (2003) The Mead-Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England. Anglo-Saxon Books [history; feasts; ritual meals; Europe].

Powdermaker H (1932) Feast in New Ireland: The Social Function of Eating. American Anthropologist. 34:236-247 [feast; social relations; Oceania; New Ireland].

Reed LJ (2000) Arctic and Subarctic Regions. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1323-1329 [history; acculturation; feasts; North American Indians].

Rosman A; Rubel PG (1971) Feasting with Mine Enemy: Rank and Exchange among Northwest Coast Societies [social relations; feasting; conflict; fighting with food; exchange; North American Indian; Northwest Coast].

Rowland I (2004) The Lost Art of Eating, Review of Feast: A History of Grand Eating by Roy Strong. The New York Review of Books. LI:30-32 [history; feasting].

Recommended -- click for detailsSalvador ML (1987) Food for the Holy Ghost: Ritual Exchange in Azorean Festivals. in A Falassi (ed) Time out of Time: Essays on the Festival. University of New Mexico Press, pp. 244-260 [food in ritual; festival; religion; symbol and meaning; Europe; Africa; Azores].

Sen CT (2004) Food Culture in India. Greenwood Press [foods; foodways; regional cuisines; festivals; caste; nutrition and health; South Asia].

Sho H (2001) History and Characteristics of Okinawan Longevity Food. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 10:159-164(6) [food as medicine; health; fish; sweet potato; soy; tofu; pork; raw sugar; sea weed (konbu); festival; East Asia; Japan; Okinawa; Ryukyus].

Recommended -- click for detailsSpradley J (1969) Guest Never Leave Hungry: The Autobiography of James Sewid, a Kwakiutl Indian. Yale University Press [feasting; North American Indians; Kwakiutl].

Strong R (2004) Feast: A History of Grand Eating. Harcourt [history; feasting].

Sutton D (2001) Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory. Berg Press [cognition; meaning; feasts; Europe; Greece; Kalymnos].

Toomey P (1992) Mountain of Food, Mountain of Love: Ritual Inversion of the Annakuta Feast at Mount Govardhan. in RS Khare (ed) Eternal Food: Gastronomic Ideas and Experiences of Hindus and Buddhists. State University of New York Press, pp. 117-145 [feasts; social relations; symbol; ritual; South Asia; Northern India; Braj].

Recommended -- click for detailsToomey PM (1994) Food from the Mouth of Krishna: Feast and Festivities in a North Indian Pilgrimage Center. Hindustan Publishing [feast; festival; North India; South Asia].

Volkman TA (1985) Feasts of Honor: Ritual and Change in the Toraja Highlands. University of Illinios Press [feasts; culture change; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Toraja].

Voss J (1987) The Politics of Pork and the Rituals of Rice: Redistributive Feasting and Commodity Circulation in Northern Luzon, Philippines. in J Clammer (ed) Beyond the New Economic Anthropology. Macmillan [social relations; food sharing; feasting; symbolic meaning; Southeast Asia; Philippines; Luzon].

Wada J; Pogosian B; Grivetti LE (1999) Japanese Festival Foods. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 38:307- [festivals; East Asia; Japan].

Walker H (2002) The Meal. Prospect Books [collected papers; history; sociology; ethnology; dinning; social aspects; feasting].

Watson JL (1987) From the Common Pot: Feasting with Equal in Chinese Society. Anthropos. 82:389-401 [feasting; East Asia; China].

Williams S (1985) Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America. Pantheon [social history; feasting; North America; United States].

Recommended -- click for detailsWoolf N; Conti KM; Johnson C, et al. (1999) Northern Plains Indians Food Practices, Customs, and Holidays. American Dietetic Association/American Diabetes Association [foodways; feasts; North American Indians].

Wright JC, editor (2004) The Mycenaean Feast. The American School of Classical Studies [collected essays; archaeology; festival; Mycenaean civilization ].

Yang MM (1994) Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China. Cornell University Press [social relations; feasts; East Asia; China].

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