Making and un-making meat: Cultural boundaries, environmental thresholds and dietary transgressions

Food Transgressions: Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 181-203

  Sage, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

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