Our ‘daily bread’?: The origins of grinding grains and breadmaking

Exploring the Materiality of Food 'Stuffs': Transformations, Symbolic Consumption and Embodiments

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 57-78

  Hayden, Brian ^a   Nixon Darcus, Laurie ^a   Ansell, Logan ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

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EID: 85020772936     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315673851     Document Type: Chapter

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