The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig.(Review)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: June 22, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

By Claudine Fabre-Vassas (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. x plus 401pp.).

How do we define what we are ? This question lies at the heart of many historical and anthropological studies, and has led scholars to look closely at the "other": people and things that help define us by what we are not. Claudine Fabre-Vassas approaches this subject by a wide-ranging ethnographic look at Christian Europe from the Middle Ages to the present, discovering an intricate pattern of self-definition in which Christians draw the boundaries of who they are by contrasting themselves to ...

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