The Never-Ending Feast. The anthropology and archaeology of feasting, by Kaori O'Connor, 2015. London: Bloomsbury; ISBN 978-1-8478-8926-3 paperback £21.99; 239 pp., 21 b/w illus
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DOI: 10.1017/s0959774317000488
Abstract: Itmight seem that our era of expensive restaurants, celebrity chefs and exotic edibles is novel. O’Connor’s delightful book examineswhat similar practices looked like in the past, considering texts and archaeological evidence from ancient Europe and… read more here.
Keywords: anthropology; never ending; archaeology; feast anthropology ... See more keywords
Walker Connor (1926–2017): a tribute†
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DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2017.1350943
Abstract: Walker Connor was born in 1926, and was contemporaneous with my own father, so not surprisingly he was a father figure to me. Unlike my own father Walker made it past 90. Those of us… read more here.
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“A Yet More Terrible and More Deeply Complicated Problem”: Walt Whitman, Race, Reconstruction, and American Democracy
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DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajy020
Abstract: In March 1888, eleven years after the end of Reconstruction, Walt Whitman’s disciples Horace Traubel and Richard Maurice Bucke left Camden, New Jersey, where Whitman then lived, and traveled as the poet’s emissaries to visit… read more here.
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