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Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork
Brad Weiss
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Description for Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 37 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; JFCV; JHMC; KCT; WBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
In addition to being one of the United States' largest pork producers, North Carolina is home to a developing niche market of pasture-raised pork. In Real Pigs Brad Weiss traces the desire for "authentic" local foods in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina as he follows farmers, butchers, and chefs through the process of breeding, raising, butchering,...
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822361572
SKU
V9780822361572
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Brad Weiss
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.
Reviews for Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork
"Because each example of food-centered action is fraught with contradictions, ambiguities and paradoxes, Weiss’s descriptions are appropriately rich and multidimensional to portray those complexities. . . . Brad Weiss invites us to hear the voices of the people involved from all directions." - Paul Durrenberger (Bronislaw Magazine) "While Real Pigs would be scintillating for anyone interested in the recent rise...
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