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The cuisine of sacrifice among the Greeks / Marcel Detienne and Jean-Pierre Vernant ; with essays by Jean-Louis Durand [and others] ; translated by Paula Wissing.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.Description: vii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226143511
  • 0226143538
Uniform titles:
  • Cuisine du sacrifice en pays grec. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 292.38
Contents:
Culinary practices and the spirit of sacrifice/ Marcel Detienne -- At man's table: Hesiod's foundation myth of sacrifice / Jean-Pierre Vernant -- Greek animals: toward a topology of edible bodies / Jean-Louis Durand -- Ritual as instrumentality / Jean-Louis Durand -- The violence of wellborn ladies: women in the Thesmophoria / Marcel Detienne -- The feast of the wolves, or the impossible city / Marcel Detienne and Jesper Svenbro -- Food in the countries of the sun / Jean-Pierre Vernant -- Self-cooking beef and the drinks of Ares / Francois Hartog -- Sanctified slaughter in modern Greece: The "Kourbania" of the saints / Stella Georgourdi -- A bibliography of Greek sacrifice / Jesper Svenbro.
List(s) this item appears in: Anne Stewart's Collection
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book - 7-day loan Book - 7-day loan CYA Library Main Collection 292.38 DET (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00000011664
Total holds: 0

Translation of: La cuisine du sacrifice en pays grec.

Includes bibliographical references.

Culinary practices and the spirit of sacrifice/ Marcel Detienne -- At man's table: Hesiod's foundation myth of sacrifice / Jean-Pierre Vernant -- Greek animals: toward a topology of edible bodies / Jean-Louis Durand -- Ritual as instrumentality / Jean-Louis Durand -- The violence of wellborn ladies: women in the Thesmophoria / Marcel Detienne -- The feast of the wolves, or the impossible city / Marcel Detienne and Jesper Svenbro -- Food in the countries of the sun / Jean-Pierre Vernant -- Self-cooking beef and the drinks of Ares / Francois Hartog -- Sanctified slaughter in modern Greece: The "Kourbania" of the saints / Stella Georgourdi -- A bibliography of Greek sacrifice / Jesper Svenbro.

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