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Food Taboos in Lowland South America

Food Taboos in Lowland South America

Food Taboos in Lowland South America

Working Papers on South American Indians, Number 3, August 1981
(File format: PDF. File size: 13.08 MB)
Editors: Kenneth M. Kensinger and Waud H. Kracke

Contents:

  • Foreword by Kenneth M. Kensinger and Waud H. Kracke
  • From Forest to Mouth: Reflections on the Txicão Theory of Substance by Patrick Menget
  • Protein, Protein, What is Done in Thy Name? by Jean-Paul Dumont and Marshall Hurlich
  • Knowledge and Praxis in Sanuma Food Prohibitions by Kenneth I. Taylor
  • Food Taboos and the Balance of Oppositions among the Barasana and Taiwano by Thomas A. Langdon
  • The Semiotics of Tabooed Food: Shokleng (Ge) by Greg Urban
  • Don’t Let the Piranha Bite Your Liver by Waud H. Kracke
  • Cubeo Dietary Rules by Irving Goldman
  • Food Taboos as Markers of Age Categories in Cashinahua by Kenneth M. Kensinger
  • Infancy Related Food Taboos among the Shipibo by Joan Abelove and Roberta Campos
  • Achuara Food Taboos by Pita Kelekna
  • Food Taboos in Lowland South America: A Discussion by Donald F. Tuzin
  • Protean Analyses of Food Taboos in Lowland South America: The Search for a Framework by Fitz John Porter Poole