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