Feasts and Ritual Structures: Ethnoarchaelogical and Archaeological Perspectives
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)
Feasts and rituals are key elements in understanding human cultures worldwide, as foods and material cultures served for feasts and rituals are representing a core of the any cultures. This session combines ethnoarchaelogical and archaeological studies to aid in understanding the role of feasting and ritual in the evolution of human societies, particularly focused on transegalitarian societies. The first half of this session presents the results of ethnoarchaeological studies of traditional feasting and ritual in Papua New Guinea and Japan. These studies discuss how feasting and ritual are related to evolution of transegalitarian societies and how they can be identified archaeologically. The latter half of the session explores evolution of feasting and ritual among Jomon societies as case studies.
Other Keywords
Jomon •
Social Complexity •
Ethnohistory •
Burial Customs •
Totemism •
Wooden Artifacts •
First Salmon Ceremony •
Feasting •
Ethnoarchaeology •
pottery-making
Geographic Keywords
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Isl (Country) •
Territory of Guam (Country) •
Japan (Country) •
Republic of Palau (Country) •
Republic of the Philippines (Country) •
Negara Brunei Darussalam (Country) •
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Country) •
Republic of Korea (Country) •
Republic of Indonesia (Country) •
Republic of Tajikistan (Country)