By means of interdisciplinary examples, this book showcases the relationship between people and plants across wide ranging and diverse spatial and temporal milieus, including crop diversity, the use of wild foodstuffs, social context, status and choices of food plants.
This book approaches the great variety of agricultural practices in human terms. It focuses on the relationship between plants and people, the complexity of agricultural processes and their organisation within particular communities and societies. Collaborative European research…
"Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive introduction to the study of food and society. The book begins by examining the food economy, with chapters focussing on foodscapes, the financializ…
"Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive introduction to the study of food and society. The book begins by examining the food economy, with chapters focussing on foodscapes, the financializ…
In this volume, one of the world's foremost archaeo-biologists surveys humankind's shift from hunting/gathering to raising our own food. The book shows how basic archaeological methods and modern technologies are used to investigate this transformation.
In The Emergence of Agriculture, well-known archaeologist Bruce Smith explores the initial emergence and early expansion of agriculture, and the transformations in human society that it made possible.
Paleopathology at the origins of agriculture
by Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Cohen, Mark Nathan, Armelagos, George J., Conference on Paleopathology and Socioeconomic Change at the Origins of Agriculture, State University of New York College at Plattsburgh), State University of New York College at Plattsburgh