Food Taboos

3 (1981) 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
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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

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