"I've always been interested in the way that people are shaped by the environments that they live in," said National ...

Feasting does not have to be gluttonous—but it can be, and this is (at least in part) why I think seasonal feasting matters. There ought to be limits on how, whether, and when we feast.

The combination of “feasting and fasting”, as Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), described it in Seattle, increasingly arises as countries develop.

Public events such as feasts provide the context in which a multitude of social relations are defined and negotiated. Here I reanalyze animal remains from mound and village contexts at the Toqua site, ...