[Sca-cooks] Fwd: BMR: James C. Wright (ed.), The Mycenaean Feast

[Sandra Kisner]

In case anyone is interested.  I could e-mail the entire review to anyone 
who is interested, or you could check the BMR website.

Sandra

>(From BMCR 2005.04.49)
>
>James C. Wright (ed.), The Mycenaean Feast = Hesperia 73:2 (2004).
>Princeton:  The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004.
>Pp. xiii, 217.  ISBN 0-87661-951-0.  $25.00.
>
>Reviewed by Seth Button, University of Michigan (sbutton at umich.edu)
>Word count:  2022 words
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>
>Feasting has long been recognized as important social behavior, whether
>in terms of the creation of obligation and status differences, the
>mobilization of labor, or the formation and negotiation of group and
>individual identities. The Mycenaean Feast (TMF) is one of two very
>recent collections of scholarly papers dealing specifically with food
>and drink in prehistoric Greece.[[1]] While James Wright explicitly
>cautions the reader that TMF is not intended to be comprehensive, in
>its pages faunal, ceramic, and mortuary data, ceramic styles, Linear B
>records, architecture and iconography are all discussed in the context
>of feasting and, more broadly, social change, making it an
>indispensable resource for anyone interested in food and society in the
>Aegean Late Bronze Age.
>
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>
>Contributors and Chapter Titles
>
>James C. Wright- Chapter 1. The Mycenaean Feast: An Introduction (pp.
>1-12)
>
>James C. Wright- Chapter 2. A Survey of Evidence for Feasting in
>Mycenaean Society (pp. 13-58).
>
>Sharon Stocker and Jack Davis- Chapter 3. Animal Sacrifice, Archives,
>and Feasting at the Palace of Nestor (pp. 59-76).
>
>Mary K. Dabney, Paul Halstead, and Patrick Thomas- Chapter 4. Mycenaean
>Feasting on Tsoungiza at Ancient Nemea (pp. 77-96).
>
>Thomas G. Palaima- Chapter 5. Sacrificial Feasting in the Linear B
>Documents (pp. 97-126).
>
>Elisabetta Borgna- Chapter 6. Aegean Feasting. A Minoan Perspective
>(pp. 127-160).
>
>Louise Steel- Chapter 7. A Goodly Feast ... A Cup of Mellow Wine:
>Feasting in Bronze Age Cyprus (pp. 161-180).
>
>Susan Sherratt- Chapter 8. Feasting in Homeric Epic (pp. 181-217).
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