Were luxury foods the first domesticates? Ethnoarchaeological perspectives from Southeast Asia
Were luxury foods the first domesticates? Ethnoarchaeological perspectives from Southeast Asia
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10.1080/0043824021000026459a
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发表时间:
2003-02-01
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1.3
通讯作者:
Hayden, B
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Hayden, B
There are important reasons for considering the first domesticated plants and animals as luxury foods primarily used in feasting. Using Southeast Asian tribal society as a case study, it is demonstrated that all the domesticated animals and the most important of the domesticated plants constitute forms of wealthy that are primarily or exclusively used in feasting contexts. In addition, numerous studies have demonstrated that feasting generates powerful forces that intensify and increase resources production of luxury foods as well as staples. Such forces ultimately can lead to the domestication of wild species and the transformation of luxury foods into staple foods.