The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires
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Feasts, Funerals, and Fast Food in Early Mesopotamian States

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“…The political nature of food production may be expressed economically through taxes, tributes, and redistributions, or symbolically, as with elite-led hunting expeditions. Politicoeconomic tribute and redistribution patterns have been extensively investigated, in diverse civilizations from the Maya to the Mississippian to the Mesopotamian Early Dynastic (Blitz 1993;Jackson and Scott 1995;Morehart and Eisenberg 2010;Pohl 1994;Pollock 2003). Despite ample ethnographic evidence for the politicosymbolic importance of plant food production (e.g., Malinowski 1935), the political symbolism of agrarian production has received little direct attention (although see Hayden 1990;Hayden 2003, pp.…”
Section: Competition/politicsmentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…The political nature of food production may be expressed economically through taxes, tributes, and redistributions, or symbolically, as with elite-led hunting expeditions. Politicoeconomic tribute and redistribution patterns have been extensively investigated, in diverse civilizations from the Maya to the Mississippian to the Mesopotamian Early Dynastic (Blitz 1993;Jackson and Scott 1995;Morehart and Eisenberg 2010;Pohl 1994;Pollock 2003). Despite ample ethnographic evidence for the politicosymbolic importance of plant food production (e.g., Malinowski 1935), the political symbolism of agrarian production has received little direct attention (although see Hayden 1990;Hayden 2003, pp.…”
Section: Competition/politicsmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Consider the economic values and roles of particular foods; clearly they tie into social distinctions in a variety of ways, even when these relationships remain only textually implicit. For example, the rationing and food wages common in state-level societies (Killen 2004;Pollock 2003;Samuel 1999) clearly divide donors from recipients. In a more complex example, McCormick (2008) states that cattle played a central role in the economy of early medieval Ireland, even as their cultural value greatly transcended their economic worth.…”
Section: Economic Differentiationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sociedades como la sumeria (Schmandt-Besserat 2001;Pollock 2003), egipcia (Smith 2003) o griega (Halstead y Barrett 2004) poseen una rica documentación en donde uno de los temas recurrente consiste en el desarrollo de ceremonias festivas en donde el consumo de comida, especialmente de carne, forma parte consustancial de estas prácticas sociales. Situación parecida se documenta en las sociedades micénicas en donde tanto las representaciones pictóricas como los textos del Lineal B hacen referencia explícita a diferentes contextos de comensalidad (Bendall 2004).…”
Section: El Consumo De Carne En Los Rituales De Comensalidadunclassified
“…Como parte de los ajuares de las sepulturas de este periodo aparecen importantes cantidades de cuencos y jarras realizados con las pastas crudas cuya presencia en las sepulturas han sido asociada a rituales de comensalidad (Pollock 2003 exhibir la riqueza y el estatus social obligaría a un control preciso de su distribución, lo que supone un importante poder sobre quién y en qué posición accede al ritual funerario o a determinados medios de producción o consumo. Las importantes diferencias en la distribución de la cerámica y su relación con los sectores sociales de mayor estatus permite plantear una organización de la producción basada en artesanos dependientes, al menos en lo que se refiere a la producción de cerámicas específicas para el ritual funerario (Aranda 2004).…”
Section: Los Ajuares Cerámicos Argáricosunclassified