1st Edition
Guinea Pigs Food, Symbol and Conflict of Knowledge in Ecuador
By Eduardo P. Archetti
Copyright 1997
162 Pages
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Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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Guinea pigs have been reared and eaten by indigenous people in the Andes since ancient times, and it seemed rational to development planners to ‘modernize' their production. When these development projects ran into trouble, a team of anthropologists was invited to study the reasons for this lack of success. This intriguing book is the product of that study.What the author shows is that guinea pigs... Read more
History of a project; the cultural complexity of the guinea-pig; the meat produced; the meat transformed; the healing meat; the meat as commodity; social and cultural logics.
Biography
Eduardo P. Archetti Professor of Social Anthropology,University of Oslo Translated from the Spanish by Valentina Napolitano
