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Feasting on Whispers: Life Writing Towards a Pedagogy of Kinship
This work of life writing seeks to question the overpowering myths of progress, competition and domination that continue to story the educational landscape. In exploring the possibilities of metaphor as a possible response to these dominant myths, this collection of narrative and poetic pieces …
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Feasting on Fido: Cultural Implications of Eating Dogs at Bridge River
… pit resulted from a single event associated with feasting, and would represent a symbolic display of status. The use of dogs as a delicacy in the feasting apparatus is unique to the Bridge River village’s archaeological record compared to the Keatley Creek site, where analyses concluded many of …
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Feasting on Fido: Cultural Implications of Eating Dogs at Bridge River
… pit resulted from a single event associated with feasting, and would represent a symbolic display of status. The use of dogs as a delicacy in the feasting apparatus is unique to the Bridge River village’s archaeological record compared to the Keatley Creek site, where analyses concluded many of …
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Mississippian Feasting Strategies In the Lower Mississippi Valley: Archaeobotanical Analysis of Two Features From Winterville Mounds (22WS500)
… the disposal of leftovers generated from ritual feasting events, and their proximity to their respective mounds may indicate these events were hosted by the mound summit residents. Temporally, the two pits bracket the occupation of the site, with Feature 113 dating to the beginning of mound …
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Feasting on foreign aid : a political economic examination of foreign aid's potential role in perpetuating chronic hunger and starvation in Malawi
Foreign aid to Malawi has the ability to perpetuate the country's fifteen-year long hunger crisis. For millions of Malawians, chronic starvation is attributable to their inability to access food available on internationalised markets. Bilateral foreign aid to the Southern African state is aimed at …
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Visual Communication on Cajamarca Ceramics from pre-Hispanic Peru, 1000 - 1460 CE
… sherds within the context of inter-community feasting events that took place at Yanaorco, fineware ceramic vessels are interpreted as prestige items that were utilized by the elite to further differentiate themselves from other community citizens. By examining key examples of representational …
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Farming and feasting in Iron Age Orkney: a comparison of livestock farming practices and dietary traditions at The Cairns, Mine Howe, Pool, and Howe, based on mortality profiles analyses of cattle, sheep/goat, and pig mandibles.
… project has also highlighted the presence of feasting at The Cairns and<br/>Mine Howe. Furthermore, this research also suggests that The Cairns and Mine Howe would<br/>correspond to a community of ‘consumers’, while Pool and Howe would be associated with<br/>‘producers’.
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Case Studies in Ancient Maya Human-Animal Relations: El Perú, La Corona, and Commensal Mammals
… La Corona sample is derived from a high elite feasting context recovered from a chultun (CR16B-1A). This deposit was located in close association with Structure 13R-10, a building used for elite political legitimization and observation of calendric rituals during the Classic period (250-900 …
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Elements of carnival and the carnivalesque in contemporary Australian children's literature
… body and its working, the importance of feasting and the associated concepts of bodily functioning, customs in relation to food, and ritual and specific language such as the use of curses and oaths. The role of humour and the manifest forms this takes within carnival are intrinsic and are …
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A Ceramic Vessel Function Analysis and Foodways Approach to the Late Woodland/Mississippian Interface in Kershaw County, South Carolina
… some elites reside and engage in competitive feasting, foodways evidence recovered from Mississippian elite contexts will differ from that recovered from the Mississippian commoners' villages and Late Woodland villages. As evidence for foodways practices, I completed a vessel function analysis …
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The architecture of food: Consumption and society in the Iron Age of Atlantic Scotland, with special reference to the site of Old Scatness, Shetland.
… means through which this could be achieved is feasting, a practice considered significant elsewhere in the Iron Age. With such ideas at its core, this thesis examines the main arenas for consumption events in Iron Age Atlantic Scotland (dwellings) in detail, considering also the underpinnings …
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Pilgrimage and the construction of Cahokia: a view from the emerald site
… structures, plazas or open areas, evidence of feasting and other communal activities, and acts of remembrance. Overall, the archaeological data closely corresponds with these correlates. Ceramic and architectural data revealed that there were at least five distinct, short-term occupations at …
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Hilltop Archaeology: Ceremony and Ritual at the Site of Cerro Santa Rita, Chao Valley, Peru
… today. The traditions of ancestor veneration and feasting are no exceptions to this. Cerro Santa Rita was a burial complex that had plazas and courtyards associated with the tombs of ancestors. Not as elaborate or large as the <em>huacas</em> to the north in the Moche and Chicama Valleys, which …
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The same but better: understanding ceramic variation in the Hebridean Neolithic
… seemingly associated with communal gathering and feasting events at key locales within which a distinctive Hebridean Neolithic identity was forged. Throughout, this study takes a relational approach to the issue of variation in material culture, viewing all archaeological entities as dynamic …
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The Deer Island Site (22HR500): Prehistoric Ceramics and Their Meaning on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
… occupations appear more likely than short-term feasting episodes by large groups. Trade and the influx of ideas shown by the expression of regional motifs are apparent in the assemblage. Deer Island appears to be connected to other major Mississippian locales on the north Gulf Coast through …
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Archaeobotanical Analyses of the Winterville Mounds Site (22ws500) and Other Southeastern Ceremonial Complexes
… a distinction between food consumption (feasting) and deposits associated with medicine-ritual activities, possibly medicine or sweat lodges, specifically in contexts associated with the site’s largest mound, Mound A. The results suggest the need for more research focusing on less …
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Lost in Starvation: How the interplay between physiology and ecology impacts bacterial persistence in a patchy landscape
… Bacterial populations cycle through periods of feasting when attached to nutrient particles and periods of famine when foraging between hotspots; thus, bacterial physiological states and ecological processes are intertwined. The stress response to nutrient limitation appears within three hours, …
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The return to hill forts in the Dark Ages: what can this tell us about post-Roman Britain?
… glass, fine metalworking and possible large ‘feasting’ halls. However, this is not the only possible interpretation of the evidence. Indicators of status are also discussed and a new model for occupation suggested, using the words high value rather than high status. There is evidence to …
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Private supper/public feast: Gender, power, and nurture in Early Modern England
… culture, and literature of the period. Communal feasting in these texts does not signify social harmony, but often reflects disorder and inequality among diners and anxieties about the commodification and decline of hospitality, as it both recalls and denies the possibility of truly egalitarian …
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A Geoarchaeological Investigation of Storage and Surplus at Tel Tsaf, Israel
… and private access to resources and potential feasting at the site. It is established that the evidence is not significant enough to classify Tel Tsaf or the Middle Chalcolithic societies as chiefdoms. The evidence of likely surplus and potential private ownership of animals without evidence of …
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