Sacred cows and chicken Manchurian : the everyday politics of eating meat in India /

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"Observance of what people in present-day India eat and do not eat, the styles and contexts within which they do so, and the disparities between rhetoric and everyday action prompt vital questions concerning what it is to be Indian in the early twenty-first century. The current "beef situa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Staples, James, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
Series:Culture, place, and nature.
Subjects:
Food habits > India.
Meat industry and trade > Social aspects > India.
Meat > Religious aspects > Hinduism.
Habitudes alimentaires > Inde.
Viande > Aspect religieux > Hindouisme.
Food habits
Meat > Religious aspects > Hinduism
India
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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