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- catalog abstract ""Throughout history, the breeding, slaughter, and consumption of the pig has been the inspiration for both religious and secular rituals and taboos. In The Singular Beast, a daring and original account of the role of the pig and its relationship to Jews in European Christian culture, Claudine Fabre-Vassas argues that these practices defined the very boundaries between Christians and Jews." "Chronicling the cultural and religious significance of a creature that occupies an ambiguous place in the families of those who raise it - as a member of the family and a potential meal - The Singular Beast reveals the continuing power of symbols to sustain or create ethnic identities. Fabre-Vassas details the folkloric beliefs and rituals that have been associated with the slaughter and consumption of pigs from the Middle Ages until today by both provincial and urban Europeans - such as the myth that Jews do not eat pork because their children had been transformed into pigs and the story that they crave the flesh of Christian children because they are deprived of pork." "Ranging from early Christianity to the present, from Spain to Scandinavia, The Singular Beast is both a broad study of the extraordinary, complex role of the animal central to the diets and rituals of most European populations and a close historical analysis of anti-Semitism and the creation of real-life myths."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Bête singulière. English".
- catalog contributor b10267111.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description ""Throughout history, the breeding, slaughter, and consumption of the pig has been the inspiration for both religious and secular rituals and taboos. In The Singular Beast, a daring and original account of the role of the pig and its relationship to Jews in European Christian culture, Claudine Fabre-Vassas argues that these practices defined the very boundaries between Christians and Jews." "Chronicling the cultural and religious significance of a creature that occupies an ambiguous place in the families of those who raise it - as a member of the family and a potential meal - The Singular Beast reveals the continuing power of symbols to sustain or create ethnic identities. Fabre-Vassas details the folkloric beliefs and rituals that have been associated with the slaughter and consumption of pigs from the Middle Ages until today by both provincial and urban Europeans - such as the myth that Jews do not eat pork because their children had been transformed into pigs and the story that they crave the flesh of Christian children because they are deprived of pork." "Ranging from early Christianity to the present, from Spain to Scandinavia, The Singular Beast is both a broad study of the extraordinary, complex role of the animal central to the diets and rituals of most European populations and a close historical analysis of anti-Semitism and the creation of real-life myths."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "An Analogical Being -- The Red Men -- Children's Stories -- The Circle of Metamorphoses -- From one Blood to the Next -- The Jew's Sow -- Red Easter -- Old Jews, Young Christians -- The Little Jew -- Christian Flesh -- The Return of the Pig -- Blood and Soul -- The Bone That Sings -- The Time of Sacrifice.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-373) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 401 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0231103662 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "European perspectives".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog subject "398/.369633 21".
- catalog subject "Animals Symbolic aspects.".
- catalog subject "Blood accusation.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and other religions Judaism.".
- catalog subject "Christians Food History.".
- catalog subject "Cooking (Pork)".
- catalog subject "Food Religious aspects.".
- catalog subject "Food Symbolic aspects.".
- catalog subject "Food habits History.".
- catalog subject "GR730.S9 F3313 1997".
- catalog subject "Jews Dietary laws.".
- catalog subject "Jews Food History.".
- catalog subject "Judaism Relations Christianity.".
- catalog subject "Swine Folklore.".
- catalog subject "Swine Social aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "An Analogical Being -- The Red Men -- Children's Stories -- The Circle of Metamorphoses -- From one Blood to the Next -- The Jew's Sow -- Red Easter -- Old Jews, Young Christians -- The Little Jew -- Christian Flesh -- The Return of the Pig -- Blood and Soul -- The Bone That Sings -- The Time of Sacrifice.".
- catalog title "Bête singulière. English".
- catalog title "The singular beast : Jews, Christians & the pig / Claudine Fabre-Vassas ; translated by Carol Volk.".
- catalog type "Folklore. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".