基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2007. This fascinating account unfolds the history of the human meal and its huge impact both on human society and the ecology of the planet.
Full Description
Is sharing food such an everyday, unremarkable occurrence?
In fact, the human tendency to sit together peacefully over food is actually rather an extraordinary phenomenon, and one which many species find impossible. It is also a pheonomenon with far-reaching consequences for the global environment and human social evolution.
So how did this strange and powerful behaviour come about? In Feast, Martin Jones uses the latest archaeological methods to illuminate how humans came to share food in the first place and how the human meal has developed since then.
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.
Contents
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
