Bread

BreadCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781501307447 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2016 Publisher: Bloomsbury Description: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social cohesion from the homely image of "breaking

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781501307447
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury


Description:
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else- flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social cohesion- from the homely image of "breaking bread together" to the mysteries of the Eucharist. But bread also commonly figures in social conflict sometimes literally, in the "bread riots" that punctuate European history, and sometimes figuratively, in the ways bread operates as ethnic, religious or class signifier. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from the scriptures to modern pop culture, Bread tells the story of how this ancient and everyday object serves as a symbol for both social communion and social exclusion.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.