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Birds as Food: Anthropological and Cross Disciplinary Perspectives is a collection of essays by anthropologists and contributors from other disciplines. Traditions of using birds as food exist in almost all human societies past and present. Over a hundred different species around the world are mentioned in this volume. The contributions are support...
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... was the month in which fried and boiled seagull eggs (Larus spp.) contributed to the diet of the families settled on the Great Blasket Island, Republic of Ireland (Lysaght 2000). In December, boiled flamingo eggs were sold in a notable quantity in North Chilean cities like San Pedro de Atacama or San Francisco de Chiu-Chiu, brought by native people who exploited mixed colonies of Phoenicoparrus jamesi, Phoenicoparrus andinus and Phoenicopterus chilensis (Bittman 1988, Figure 6). ...
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... roadside restaurateur Harland David 'Colonel' Sanders, in 1939, pioneered the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), a chain of pre-cooked chicken restaurant franchises. Over the next decade he introduced his vaunted 'secret recipe' 8 for 'southern fried chicken' ( Figure 6). Sanders made use of a recently invented piece of kitchen technology (the pressure cooker) and married it to an ensemble of fixings widely known in the oral traditions used by African American domestic workers and cooks for generations, drawing a shroud of secrecy around what was in plain view among working people and small growers. ...
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... to their diet, according to our key informant, such turkeys grow faster and are killed around four or five months old to be sold frozen. Those roasted for special occasions, generally have stuffings in the cavity, and may be served sliced with bread, fruit salads and wine ( Figure 6). Other even heavier turkeys are not slaughtered for seven, eight or nine months and the meat is used to make sausages or other industrialised turkey dishes. ...
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... painting of such a turkey, signed by Mansur, the famous artist at Jahangir's court, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Dated a bit later is a painting of a turkey associated with the court of the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, which is in the Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge University (Figure 6: For further information see Fraser 2017: 48). Then, in complete reversal of the Anglophone misconceptions mentioned above, the domesticated turkey (of Mexican ancestry) was taken to North America by North European migrants, including the English. ...
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... after the Second World War, the Communist government in Yugoslavia limited the right to private ownership of land bigger than 10 acres. That restriction had some beneficial consequences ecologically ( Figure 6). Small farmers could not go into hyper production, but they could provide food for and breed a small flock of turkeys. ...
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... Bidache, for instance, the Lataillade family is still producing hybrid ducklings using a local common duck breed: 'Kriaxera' or 'Criaxera' (Figures 6 and 7). From the end of the 1970s, the overwhelming majority of the Mule ducks bred in Southwest France are obtained using an Asiatic breed of common duck as the maternal line. ...
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... of the men working on this ranch had bruises which they proudly showed me lifting up their shirt or trouser leg. Ostrich production ( Figure 6) certainly is more complicated than raising chickens for meat or eggs, it is a more specialised work environment due to the bird being so large, more comparable to raising cows for meat or maintaining a dairy for milk products where trained workers capable of handling large animals are necessary. ...
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... birds reach the nesting cells through holes on the outer surfaces of the walls (Figure 4) and through quadrangular or more often cylindrical little ducts connecting the holes to the cells. In order to monitor the broods, there was an opening at the thickness of the wall and on the dimension of the stones and/or bricks, seems to have initially spread as structures built into the upper part of the 'casa torre' (tower houses), mediaeval fortified rural buildings (Figure 6), well-known in almost all of northern and central Italy since the thirteenth Century ( Bertacci et al. 1974Bertacci et al. , 1975). These Figure 6: Tower house (casa torre), with little square windows for the dovecote and smaller holes for swifts, well renovated, Guiglia (MO, Italy). ...
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... order to monitor the broods, there was an opening at the thickness of the wall and on the dimension of the stones and/or bricks, seems to have initially spread as structures built into the upper part of the 'casa torre' (tower houses), mediaeval fortified rural buildings (Figure 6), well-known in almost all of northern and central Italy since the thirteenth Century ( Bertacci et al. 1974Bertacci et al. , 1975). These Figure 6: Tower house (casa torre), with little square windows for the dovecote and smaller holes for swifts, well renovated, Guiglia (MO, Italy). ...
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... an attempt to date the first period of use, there is in the Church of the Sorrows of Mornico al Serio (Bergamo province), an unusual fresco (Figure 7) painted in 1470 by Maffiolo da Cazzano as an ex voto, depicting a 'swift tower' similar to many ancient 'swift towers' (c.f. above Figure 6) surviving in regions of northern and central Italy and maybe in the Central Alps at the time of the first 'tower houses'; the above fresco confirms that in 1470 the practice was probably already very stable and therefore much older, and tied to these fortified houses. To this pictographic testimony is to be added the evidence of terracotta nesting cells in the early sixteenth century as recorded by Antonini (2000), who led a middle-class school to document the construction of dwelling in a dovecote tower in the village of Bojon di Campolongo Maggiore (Venice province). ...
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... famous Russian writer, Anton P. Chekhov, in his story, From Siberia, in 1890, wrote that he had never seen so many wild birds as in Siberia on his journey from Tumen to Tomsk (Chekhov 1987: 7). In accordance with the data collected by the correspondents of the Russian Geographical Society in the 1840s, mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos), black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) and greylag geese (Anser anser, Figure 6) were festival foods for many peasants of the Kainsk district (Gromyko 1975: 270272). Siberia for his revolutionary activity, he used his bright talents as writer and ethnographer to gain unique information about the inhabitants of the Russian Ustje district, Verkhoyansky province in Yakutia. ...
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... as in the fieldwork of other teams it became quickly obvious that the Eipo had an extraordinary knowledge of animals and plants and a classification system (Hiepko & Schiefenhövel 1987). All birds have names, e.g. the kokalema (Figure 6), and their phylogenetic relationship ...
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... highly appreciated food can become an inedible product as a result of changes in tastes or philosophical positioning. For instance, let us observe the conduct of French society towards the grey heron (Ardea cinerea, Figure 6). In the sixteenth century, this bird was quite appreciated by falconers as game and as a supplier of highly valued meat: its breast was regarded as a 'royal food' and the immature specimens were also considered as a delicacy. ...
