Eduardo P Archetti

Guinea Pigs

Food, Symbol and Conflict of Knowledge in Ecuador

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Guinea pigs have been reared and eaten by indigenous people in the Andes since ancient times, and it seemed rational to development planners to 'modernize' their production.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 139mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 213g
• ISBN-13: 9781859731192
• ISBN-10: 1859731198
• Artikelnr.: 27936334

Autorenporträt

Eduardo P. Archetti Professor of Social Anthropology,University of Oslo Translated from the Spanish by Valentina Napolitano

Inhaltsangabe

History of a project
the cultural complexity of the guinea-pig
the meat produced
the meat transformed
the healing meat
the meat as commodity
social and cultural logics.