%0 Journal Article %T Spitting on the barbecued meat %A Gonz¨˘lez %A Horacio %J Sociedad (Buenos Aires) %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X from the analysis of a popular argentinean idiom, this article develops the ways in which a country's inhabitants boycott their homeland through actions of sacrificial desecration. argentina will soon commemorate the bicentennial of its independence, and the country owes itself an examination of its history and of its self-condemning forms of language. %U http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0327-77122008000100001&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en