The kitchen of a primitive person. How food made a person reasonable

What made a man a man? What features of development, behavior, interactions with the surrounding reality have allocated it from the animal world? In what ways did the ordinary mammal come to an exceptional position on the planet? Anna Pavlovskaya concludes that one of the determining factors in the formation of a person and the foundations of his existence became food. In a word, a person is an animal who has taught how to prepare and thereby taking the first step in the taming of nature. This book is devoted to the food of an ancient person, the methods of its preparation and storage, the rituals that accompanied its technique associated with all these traditions and beliefs and, of course, the social function of food. Written on a variety of material, it summarizes the data of history, literature, ethnography, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, anthropology.
Anna Pavlovskaya - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Regional Studies of the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and Regional Studies of Moscow State University