Scott Cutler Shershow

Bread

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social cohesion: from the homely image of breaking bread together to the mysteries of the Eucharist. But bread also commonly figures in social conflict - sometimes literally, in the bread riots that punctuate European history, and sometimes figuratively, in the ways bread operates as ethnic, religious or class signifier. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5013-0745-4
EAN: 9781501307454
Produktnummer: 28596520
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 160 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 632 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 8 b/w illustrations

Über den Autor

Scott Cutler Shershow is Professor of English at University of California, Davis, USA. He is the author of five books, including Deconstructing Dignity: A Critique of the Right-to-Die Debate (2014).