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Author:   Paul David Buell ,  Eugene N. Anderson ,  Montserrat de Pablo Moya ,  Moldir Oskenbay
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   2
Weight:   0.776kg
ISBN:  

9789004432055

ISBN 10:   9004432051
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   18 June 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Table Introduction 1 The Eurasian Heartland: Overview of a Link between Worlds  1 Physical Geography  2 Vegetation  3 Animal Life  4 Nations of Today  5 Agriculture and Environment  6 Integrating Agriculture and Livestock  7 Nomads  8 The Crossroads  9 Overall View of Foods  10 Building Foodways 2 Prehistory and History: The Long Record of Foodways  1 Prehistory: From Hunting to Agriculture  2 Prehistory: Domestication  3 Domesticated Plants  4 Domestic Animals  5 Languages  6 The Origins of Civilization and High Culture in the Eurasian Heartland  7 Religion 3 Histories  1 Ancient and Medieval History (Before the Mongols)  2 Chinese Food Meets Western Food on the Silk Road  3 China after Tang  4 Witnesses: Travel Accounts from Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Times  5 Medicine and Food in Medieval Central Asia  6 History during the Mongol Empire  7 The Eurasian Heartland and Its Silk Roads in Mongol Times  8 Food and Medicine in Mongol Times  9 History after the Mongols  10 Travels and Excursions after  11 On to the Twentieth Century 4 Contemporary Food  1 Lifestyles  2 Bread  3 The All-Important Noodle  4 Other Grain Foods  5 Cooking Meat  6 Dairy Foods  7 Other Drinks  8 Vegetables  9 Sweets  10 Spicing  11 Cooking Utensils 5 Food by Country  1 Afghanistan’s Food 1.1  Dopiaza  2 Eastern Iran’s Food  3 Uzbekistan’s Food  4 Tajik Food  5 Kyrgyz Food  6 Kazakh Food  7 Azerbaijan food, and Central Asian Food in Turkey  8 Uighur Food  9 Mongol Food  10 Kalmyk Food  11 Chinese Food, the Central Asian Connections in Ming and Today  12 Chinese Food Today: The Central Asian Connection  13 Korea and the Eurasian Heartland Conclusion, The Next Step: Silk Road as Metaphor, Seattle, the Silk Road, and the Pacific Rim Appendix: Summary of Western Plants in the YSZY and the HHYF Bibliography Index

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Paul D. Buell, Ph.D., Part-time Faculty, University of North Georgia. Historian of Chinese medicine and Central Eurasia with special reference to the era of Mongolian Empire, the history of food and foodways, and the Age of Exploration. Sinologist, Mongolist, Turkologist. E. N. Anderson, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside. Human ecologist with interest in food production and consumption and foodways. Field research in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico, British Columbia, and short periods in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan. Montserrat de Pablo Moya, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Cuenca, University of Castilla-La Mancha. Visiting Scholar, Max Planck Institute, Berlin. Professional Photographer and Artist, interest in the history of photography and documentary photography. Field work in Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Moldir Oskenbay, Ph.D., Historian of traditional Kazakh culture and Central Eurasia with special reference to the ethnic history of Turkic tribes, era of Mongolian Empire and its aftermath. Strong secondary interests in comparative history of food and foodways.

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