TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fabre-Vassas, Claudine
TI  - The singular beast; Jews, Christians, and the pig
T2  - (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
SN  - 0-231-10366-2
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Swine--Folklore
KW  - FAST
KW  - Swine--Social aspects
KW  - Animals--Symbolic aspects
KW  - Food habits
KW  - Cooking (Pork)
KW  - Jews--Food--History
KW  - Jews--Dietary laws
KW  - Food--Religious aspects--Christianity
KW  - Food--Symbolic aspects
N1  - Originally pub. as Le Bete singuliere: les Juifs, les chretiens, le cochon, 1994, Editions Gallimard.. Transl. by Carol Volk; Part 1 - an analogical being. 1 The red men. 2 Children's stories. 3 The circle of metamorphoses. Part 2 - From one blood to the next. 4 The Jew's sow. 5 Red Easter. 6 Old Jews, young Christians. 7 The little Jew. Part 3 - Christian flesh. 8 The return of the pig. 9 Blood and soul. 10 The bone that sings. The time of sacrifice
N2  - '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 relationshp to Jews in European Christian culture, Claudine Fabre-Vassas argues that these practices defined the very boundaries between Christians and Jews.'
ER  -