{"product_id":"sacred-cows-and-chicken-manchurian-james-staples-9780295747873","title":"Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eChallenges popular generalizations about cow protection and beef consumption\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBovine 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderstanding 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. \u003ci\u003eSacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Staples\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0295747870\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780295747873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Washington Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"James Staples","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064815431935,"sku":"9780295747873","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_49ccd30f-b860-4d2d-8842-3af123195f3d.jpg?v=1768671216","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sacred-cows-and-chicken-manchurian-james-staples-9780295747873","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}