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Grateful prey and animal sign

Reflections on food, the Palaeolithic and the nature-culture dichotomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Alexander Verpoorte
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Abstract

This paper reflects on the recent flourishing of the interdisciplinary study of food. Central is the notion that food forms a meeting-place for nature and culture, thereby overcoming this cartesian dichotomy. The paper starts from a discussion of the work of the French anthropologist P. Descola.

Keywords

foodnature-culture dichotomypaleolithic-neolithicDescola
Type
Research Article
Information
Archaeological Dialogues , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , December 2000 , pp. 173 - 183
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2000

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