Research Catalog

Title

The menial art of cooking [electronic resource] : archaeological studies of cooking and food preparation / edited by Sarah R. Graff and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría.

Publication

Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2012.

Details

Additional Authors

• Graff, Sarah R.
• Rodríguez-Alegría, Enrique.
• Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (2005)

Description

1 online resource (xviii, 248 p.) : ill., maps.

Uniform Title

Menial art of cooking (Online)

Subject

• Cooking > History > Congresses
• Cooking > Social aspects > History > Congresses
• Cooks > History > Congresses
• Cookware > History > Congresses
• Food habits > History > Congresses
• Social archaeology > Congresses
• Ethnoarchaeology > Congresses
• Archaeology and history > Congresses

Note

• Based on the session "Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation" at the Society for American Archaeology conference in 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Introduction: The Menial Art of Cooking / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría and Sarah R. Graff -- Culinary Preferences : Seal-Impressed Vessels from Western Syria as Specialized Cookware / Sarah R. Graff -- Food Preparation, Social Context, and Ethnicity in a Prehistoric Mesopotamian Colony / Gil J. Stein -- The Habitus of Cooking Practices at Neolithic Çatalhöyük : What Was the Place of the Cook? / Christine A. Hastorf -- Cooking Meat and Bones at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Nerissa Russell and Louise Martin -- From Grinding Corn to Dishing Out Money : A Long-Term History of Cooking in Xaltocan, Mexico / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría -- Cooking for Fame or Fortune : The Effect of European Contact on Casabe Production in the Orinoco / Kay Tarble de Scaramelli and Franz Scaramelli -- Crafting Harappan Cuisine on the Saurashtran Frontier of the Indus Civilization / Brad Chase -- Vale Boi : 10,000 Years of Upper Paleolithic Bone Boiling / Tiina Manne -- "Hoe Cake and Pickerel" : Cooking Traditions, Community, and Agency at a Nineteenth-Century Nipmuc Farmstead / Guido Pezzarossi, Ryan Kennedy, and Heather Law -- Great Transformations : On the Archaeology of Cooking / Kathleen D. Morrison.

LCCN

2011051661

OCLC

ssj0000646740

Title

The menial art of cooking [electronic resource] : archaeological studies of cooking and food preparation / edited by Sarah R. Graff and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría.

Imprint

Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2012.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Graff, Sarah R.

Rodríguez-Alegría, Enrique.

Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (2005)