Commensality and Ceremonial Meals in the Neo-Assyrian Period
Like a language, food is a witness to the tradition and to the identity of a human group, reflecting self-representation and social interaction. Assyrians developed a particular consciousness of commensality as a vehicle for cultural messages. This book investigates institutional banquets and ritual...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Italian |
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Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari
2015
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| Series: | Antichistica
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| Collection: | Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Like a language, food is a witness to the tradition and to the identity of a human group, reflecting self-representation and social interaction. Assyrians developed a particular consciousness of commensality as a vehicle for cultural messages. This book investigates institutional banquets and ritualized meals in the Neo-Assyrian period. Through a philological analysis on commensality, integrated with historical and iconographic data, it offers a new perspective on the Mesopotamian society of the first millennium BCE. |
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| Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| ISBN: | 9788875434014 978-88-6969-058-7 9788869690587 |