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Sacred cows and chicken Manchurian the everyday politics of eating meat in India
Title
Sacred cows and chicken Manchurian [electronic resource] : the everyday politics of eating meat in India / James Staples.
ISBN
9780295747897
0295747897
9780295747873
9780295747880
Publication
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
Physical Description
1 online resource ( xvi, 229 pages) : color illustrations.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 08, 2020).
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Other formats
Print version: Staples, James, 1966- Sacred cows and chicken Manchurian Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 15, 2021
Series
Culture, place, and nature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : sacred cows and chicken Manchurian
Differential histories of meat-eating in India
Everyday South Indian foodways
From cattle shed to dinner plate
Cattle slaughter, beef-eating, and ambivalence
Health, the environment, and the riseof the chicken
From caste to class in food
Conclusion : taking on sacred cows.
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