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Title: For the Hog Killing, 1979
Condition: New
Author: Tanya Berry
Contributor: Ben Aguilar (Edited by), Wendell Berry (Introduction by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 1950564002
EAN: 9781950564002
ISBN: 9781950564002
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: Technology & Engineering, Arts & Photography
Release Date: 12/11/2019
Description: "The traditional neighborly work of killing a hog and preparing it as food for humans is either a fine art or a shameful mess. It requires knowledge, experience, skill, good sense, and sympathy," writes Wendell Berry in the essay portion of this book. In November 1979 as in years before, neighborly families gathered to do one of the ceremonious jobs of farm life: hog killing. Tanya Berry had been given a camera by New Farm magazine to photograph Kentucky farmers at work, and for two days at the farm of Owen and Loyce Flood in Henry County, she captured this culmination of a year's labor raising livestock. Here, in the resulting photographs, published for the first time, the American agrarian tradition is shown at its most harmonious, with strong men and women toiling with shared purpose towards a common wealth.

Tanya Berry reveals intimate, expressive moments: the teams of young men hoisting animals by physical strength onto a gambrel and wagon for butchering, women grinding meat and mixing sausage and readying hams for preservation, and the solidarity of human beings coming together in reverence for the food they would eat, the lives and bodies which would be taken, and those which would be strengthened.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 203mm
Item Length: 254mm
Release Year: 2019

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