Real pigs shifting values in the field of local pork /

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Author / Creator: Weiss, Brad (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Imprint: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
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Online Access:Available in e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection.
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Summary:In Real Pigs Brad Weiss traces the desire for creating "authentic" local foods in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina as he follows farmers, butchers, and chefs as they breed, raise, butcher, market, sell, and prepare their pasture-raised hogs for consumption.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-276) and index.
ISBN:9780822374237 (online)
Author Notes:Brad Weiss is Professor of Anthropology at the College of William & Mary and the author of The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice , also published by Duke University Press, and Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania .