Feasting in Southeast Asia / / Brian Hayden.
Feasting has long played a crucial role in the social, political, and economic dynamics of village life. It is far more than a gustatory and social diversion from daily work routines: alliances are brokered by feasts; debts are created and political battles waged. Feasts create enormous pressure to...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 92 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- 1. The Fundamentals of Feasts
- 2. Hill Tribes in General
- 3. The Akha, "Rife with Feasts"
- 4. Tribal Feasting in Vietnam
- 5. Laotian Tribal Feasts
- 6. The Remarkable Torajan Feasting Complex
- 7. The Sumban Megalithic Feasting Complex
- 8. Conclusions: Explaining Feasts
- References Cited
- Index