Food for Thought, Smoke for Diplomacy

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Food surrounds politics, economics, ideology, and cosmology. Food experiences go beyond the dishes. The scale of consumption varies from small daily meals to large ritual feasts. Intoxicants are used in conjunction with eating events. These substances are often paired with foods to enhance the eating experience and are used symbolically during special occasions. Tobacco was integral to all pre-contact people’s lives in Eastern North America. Use of tobacco during eating events varied based on site and setting. Tobacco served as a medium for political and social negotiations. Exchanges of tobacco often initiated discourse. This poster will explore the relationship between food and tobacco within the Algonquin-speaking Lenape, ranging from common to special use, by evaluating ethnohistorical records and analysis of smoking pipes.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39076.0