Breaking bread!

Breaking bread with the dead.

The establishment of two international ad hoc tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and the creation of an International Criminal Court within the next fi ve years, has increased the need for archaeologists who can assist in the exhumation of individual and mass graves associated with war crimes and genocide throughout the world. This work examines the efforts of teams of archaeologis...

Of Love and Liberation: a Review of Breaking Bread

Eating with the Enemy: On the Dubious Benefits of Breaking Bread with Holders of Opposing Views

We test the impact of a broadly utilized social ritual, namely sharing food with an ideological opponent, on two phenomena relevant to dispute resolution: receptiveness to the opponent’s views and attitude strength. Participants engaged in a debate about a contentious socio-political issue while eating a sandwich that they either made for themselves (Control condition) or one that was made for ...

Standard Bread

Sir,?I was glad to see the letter on this subject from " B. A. C." in your last issue, together with your editorial approval of it. Can nothing be done to indfi.ee bakers to give us really palatable and nutritious bread ? No doubt they will say, as you do, that their customers love to have ill-baked, tasteless bread. But once upon a time j)eople were content with smelly omnibuses carpeted with ...

Bread and Circuses

In the past, too little thought has been given to the relationship of culture to play. That the forms of play have varied with different cultural epochs is often forgotten; even more rarely mentioned is the idea that culture arises in the form of play, and play needs to be born. This is the main thesis of Professor Huizinga's important and absorbing book, Homo Ludens.1 He argues that culture is...