The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig by Volk, Carol

The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231103671)

Vendor: Carol Volk
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Format: Paperback
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The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig by Volk, Carol

The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig

$37.00
The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig by Volk, Carol

The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig

$37.00
Format: Paperback
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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 center of practices that defined the boundaries between Christians and Jews. A provocative exploration of the pig in European culture and anti-Semitism, The Singular Beast chronicles the cultural and religious character of the pig -- and details the folkloric beliefs still found among both provincial and urban Europeans and the rituals that have been associated with it from the Middle Ages to today.



Author: Carol Volk, Claudine Fabre-Vassas
ISBN-10: 0231103670
ISBN-13: 9780231103671
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/22/1999
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.12w x 0.88d
By Carol Volk
By Carol Volk
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Claudine Fabre-Vassas is a research fellow at the Centre Nationale Recherche Scientifique and teaches at the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Carol Volk is a translator and Foreign Service Officer based in Washington, D.C.

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