Susanne Kerner is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Cynthia Chou is Associate Professor and Head of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Morten Warmind is Associate Professor and Head of Studies of Sociology of Religion at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Notes on Contributors1) Introduction, Susanne Kerner (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Cynthia Chou (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)Part 1. Everyday Commensality2) Commensality and the Organization of Social Relations, Tan Chee-Beng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)3) Commensal Circles and the Common Pot, Penny van Esterik (York University, Canada)4) Commensality between the Young, Boris Andersen (Aalborg University, Denmark)5) Activism through Commensality: Food and Politics in a Temporary Vegan Zone, Yvonne le Grand (University of Lisbon, Portugal)6) Cooking in the Fourth Millennium BCE: Investigating the Social via the Material, Maria Bianca D'Anna (Eberhard Karls University, Germany) and Carolin Jauss (Free University Berlin, Germany)Part 2. Special Commensality7) Methodological and Definitional Issues in the Archaeology of Food, Katheryn C. Twiss (Stony Brook University, USA)8) Medieval and Modern Banquets: Commensality and Social Categorization, Paul Freedman (Yale University, USA)9) It is Ritual, isn't it? Mortuary and Feasting Practices at Domuztepe, Alexandra Fletcher (British Museum, UK) and Stuart Campbell (University of Manchester, UK)10) Drink and Commensality, or How to Hold onto Your Drink in the Chalcolithic, Susanne Kerner (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)Part 3. The Social and Political Aspects of Commensality11) How Chicken Rice Informs about Identity, Cynthia Chou (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)12) Feasting on Locusts and Truffles in the Second Millenium BCE, Hanne Nyman (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)13) Commensality and Sharing in an Andean Community in Bolivia, Cornelia A. Nell (University of St Andrews, UK)14) Dissolved in Liquor and Life: Drinkers and Drinking Cultures in Mo Yan's Novel, Liquorland, Astrid Møller-Olsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)15) Justifications for Foodways and the Study of Commensality, Jordan D. Rosenblum (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)16) The Role of Food in the Life of Christians in the Roman Empire, Morten Warmind (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)17) Ritual Meals and Polemics in Antiquity, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus (University of Bergen, Norway)NotesBibliographyIndex

The coherence of these essays ensures that Commensality will be a useful addition to any food studies library.