Editor
James R. Mathieu, Ph.D.
jmathieu@sas.upenn.edu




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Volume 45, Number 2

Summer 2003

Special Issue: Food & Culture


Cover: Photo by Birch Miles. Two Afghan refugee boys from Badakhshan run this little dukkan. They sell oragnes, fava beans, and peanuts in Chitral's bazaar in Pakistan's western Himalayas. Photographed in March 1987, the boys were refugees from the Soviet-Afghan War.





Features

Uncommonly Good Food Among Commoners--Growing and Consuming Food in Ancient Ceren
Payson Sheets

Food from Here--Struggles and Triumphs at the Farmer's Diner in Vermont
Amy B. Trubek

Food for the Gods--Or, You Are Who You Eat in Ancient Mexico
Jill Leslie McKeever Furst

Hands that Remember--An Ethnographic Approach to Everyday Cooking
Michael Hernandez and David Sutton

Special Feature:

Setting the Record Straight--The Contorted History of the Museum's Theseus Mosaic
Donald White

 

Departments

Serene Spaces--A Letter from the Associate Director for Programs

From the Issue Editor

Food Notes--Yom Yom Cacao!

Food Notes--Holy Mole

Field Experience--Afield in Abydos

Field Experience--By Land and by Sea

Research Notes--Read My Lips...Ears, Nose, Head, and Teeth

Conservation Notes--The Pharoahs Invade Venice

Film & Culture--Of Wives and Men

Book News & Reviews--Feast for the Eyes

Portrait--Rafael Morales Fernandez

Museum Mosaic--People, Places, Projects

End Notes--Spice and Rice