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Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian - The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India (Hardcover)
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Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian - The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India (Hardcover)
Series: Culture, Place, and Nature
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Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian
society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred
taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route to
cosmopolitan sophistication. The recent rise of Hindu nationalism
has further polarized traditional views: Dalits, Muslims, and
Christians protest threats to their beef-eating heritage while
Hindu fundamentalists rally against those who eat the sacred cow.
Yet close observation of what people do and do not eat, the styles
and contexts within which they do so, and the disparities between
rhetoric and everyday action overturns this simplistic binary
opposition. Understanding how a food can be implicated in riots,
vigilante attacks, and even murders demands that we look beyond
immediate politics to wider contexts. Drawing on decades of
ethnographic research in South India, James Staples charts how
cattle owners, brokers, butchers, cooks, and occasional beef eaters
navigate the contemporary political and cultural climate. Sacred
Cows and Chicken Manchurian offers a fine-grained exploration of
the current situation, locating it within the wider anthropology of
food and eating in the region and revealing critical aspects of
what it is to be Indian in the early twenty-first century.
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