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The Singular Beast - Jews, Christians, and the Pig (Paperback, Revised)
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The Singular Beast - Jews, Christians, and the Pig (Paperback, Revised)
Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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Throughout history, the slaughter and consumption of the pig has
been the inspiration for role-playing and taboos, and at the centre
of practices that defined the boundaries between Christians and
Jews. An exploration of the pig in Judeo-Christian culture and
European anti-semitism, this work chronicles the cultural and
religious character of a creature that occupies an ambiguous place
in the families of those who raise them - at once nearly a member
of the family and a potential meal. The author details the
folkloric beliefs still found among both provincial and urban
Europeans and the rituals that have been associated with the
slaughter and consumption of pigs from the Middle Ages until today.
The book also demonstrates the continuing power of symbols to
sustain or create ethnic identities.
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