Michael Bruckert. La Chair, les hommes et les dieux

Michael Bruckert’s book La Chair, les hommes et les dieux is based on the author’s dissertation in Human Geography, which received the Innovation Award from the French Societe de Geographie. The author assesses the significance and status of meat in India within the framework of the more general issue regarding the global shift towards a meat-based diet. The latter is problematic from moral and ecological standpoints, but the phenomenon does not seem to have gained a foothold in India since m...