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Marcel Detienne and Jean-Pierre Vernant

The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks

Translated by Paula Wissing
With Essays by Jean-Louis Durand, Stella Georgoudi, Franu00e7ois Hartog, and Jesper Svenbrod
284 pages, 4 halftones, 19 line drawings     © 1989

Paper $24.00

ISBN: 9780226143538   Published March 1998

Translator's Note
1. Culinary Practices and the Spirit of Sacrifice
Marcel Detienne
2. At Man's Table: Hesiod's Foundation Myth of Sacrifice
Jean-Pierre Vernant
3. Greek Animals: Toward a Topology of Edible Bodies
Jean-Louis Durand
4. Ritual as Instrumentality
Jean-Louis Durand
5. The Violence of Wellborn Ladies: Women in the Thesmophoria
Marcel Detienne
6. The Feast of the Wolves, or the Impossible City
Marcel Detienne and Jesper Svenbro
7. Food in the Countries of the Sun
Jean-Pierre Vernant
8. Self-cooking Beef and the Drinks of the Ares
François Hartog
9. Sanctified Slaughter in Modern Greece: The "Kourbánia" of the Saints
Stella Georgourdi
10. A Bibliography of Greek Sacrifice
Jesper Svenbro
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