FOOD, OTHERNESS AND SOCIABILITY - COMMENT S ON FOOD TABUS IN THE QURAN

Authors
BENKHEIRA MH
Citation
Mh. Benkheira, FOOD, OTHERNESS AND SOCIABILITY - COMMENT S ON FOOD TABUS IN THE QURAN, Archives europeennes de sociologie, 38(2), 1997, pp. 237
Citations number
73
Journal title
Archives europeennes de sociologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00039756
Volume
38
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-9756(1997)38:2<237:FOAS-C>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
Diet regulations and food prohibitions in the Koran are to be consider ed as puts of a system. apart from alcohol and drugs, all of them deal with meat consumption. It is argued that meat has a symbolic connecti on with exchange and sociability as well as with otherness.