Bread for the Living, Bread for the Dead. drawing their materials from buried

drawing their materials from buried memories

and on the beaches of Fire Island

and includes texts by Guy Brett and Althea Greenan

the abject and the unknown

This publication pays homage to a tradition in which love and death walk hand in hand

Bread for the Living, Bread for the Dead. drawing their materials from buriedThis book is about bread, which is about life, which is about death. Eight perspectives on bread are gathered here from across the Mediterranean Basin as well as the Black Sea. Taking the form of anthropological (auto)ethnography, short stories, political treatises, fairy tales, and a eulogy, this collection of texts reflects the many meanings of its core subject. Bread gathers, bread nourishes; it plays a central role in celebrations of life and