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The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental
communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing
society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a
political act, as the division of portions asserted a social order.
And the only proper manner of preparing meat for consumption,
according to the Greeks, was blood sacrifice. The fundamental myth
is that of Prometheus, who introduced sacrifice and, in the
process, both joined us to and separated us from the gods--and
ambiguous relation that recurs in marriage and in the growing of
grain. Thus we can understand why the ascetic man refuses both
women and meat, and why Greek women celebrated the festival of
grain-giving Demeter with instruments of butchery. The ambiguity
coded in the consumption of meat generated a mythology of the
other--werewolves, Scythians, Ethiopians, and other monsters. The
study of the sacrificial consumption of meat thus leads into exotic
territory and to unexpected findings. In The Cuisine of Sacrifice,
the contributors--all scholars affiliated with the Center for
Comparative Studies of Ancient Societies in Paris--apply methods
from structural anthropology, comparative religion, and philology
to a diversity of topics: the relation of political power to
sacrificial practice; the Promethean myth as the foundation story
of sacrificial practice; representations of sacrifice found on
Greek vases; the technique and anatomy of sacrifice; the
interaction of image, language, and ritual; the position of women
in sacrificial custom and the female ritual of the Thesmophoria;
the mythical status of wolves in Greece and their relation to the
sacrifice of domesticated animals; the role and significance of
food-related ritual in Homer and Hesiod; ancient Greek perceptions
of Scythian sacrificial rites; and remnants of sacrificial ritual
in modern Greek practices.
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