Description: Guinea pigs have been reared and eaten by indigenous people in the Andes since ancient times, and it seemed rational to development planners to 'modernize' their production.
Brief description: Eduardo P. Archetti is a Professor of Social Anthropology, at the University of Oslo.
Review Quotes:
"The book is a useful first reference to the important concepts in the human-animal relationship and will no doubt raise many questions which may stimulate the reader to delve further into the topics." --Anthrozoos
"Provides intriguing information." --TL S "This book is an important addition to both Andean and Latin American anthropology. The author has made a significant contribution to the general study of ritual, consumption and indigenous knowledge. Moreover, the book is short, easy to read and i mpeccably translated." --Cambridge Anthropology "Anybody who has read Eduardo Archetti's marvellous social history of the guinea-pig (Archetti, 1997) will realize that his work is not easy to pigeonhole." --Critique of Anthropology, reviewing Masculiniti es: Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina