An edition of The rituals of dinner (1991)

The rituals of dinner

the origins, evolution, eccentricities, and meaning of table manners

1st HarperPerennial ed.

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An edition of The rituals of dinner (1991)

The rituals of dinner

the origins, evolution, eccentricities, and meaning of table manners

1st HarperPerennial ed.

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This book is a commentary on the manifold meanings of the rituals of dinner; it is about how we eat, and why we eat as we do. We insist on special places and times for eating, on specific equipment, on stylized decoration, on predictable sequence among the foods eaten, on limitation of movement, and on bodily propriety. In other words, we turn the consumption of food, a biological necessity, into a carefully cultured phenomenon. - Introduction.

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Food habits, Histoire, History, Savoir-vivre, Table, Table etiquette, Tafelmanieren, Eating customs, Ess- und Trinksitte, Geschichte, Tischmanieren, Etiquette, New York Times reviewed, Eetgewoonten, Dinners and dining, Manners and customs, Food, Social aspects

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The rituals of dinner: the origins, evolution, eccentricities, and meaning of table manners
1991, Grove Weidenfeld, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-416) and index.

Gift to Victoria University Library. Danesi, Marcel. 2007/09/05.

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395/.54

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xiii, 432 p. ;
Number of pages
432

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OL22759507M
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0006379095
OCLC/WorldCat
26054649
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272572
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1081845

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Table manners are as old as human society itself, the reason being that no human society can exist without them.
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