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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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By Juha Lehtonen (Finland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Anthropology of Cannibalism (Paperback)
An updated version of 1983 book The Ethnography of Cannibalism (Brown & Tuzin, eds.), The Anthropology of Cannibalism includes seven interesting articles on the subject of human cannibalism. Almost half of the book is dedicated to the conversation about cannibalism as a tool of cultural prejudice -- whether it is applied by colonialist Europeans or Ku Waru of New Guinea. William Arens' argument of cannibalism not existing anywhere else than in the imagination of biased white anthropologists is invalidated more often than once. These dispassionate essays deal with the issue of anthropophagy never losing their scientific calmness. The subject is observed from different viewpoints in different essays. The only thing to complain is that the book is not very comprehensive. It is only about 150 pages thick and it mainly concentrates on New Guinean data. Anyway, it is better than previously mentioned, partly outdated older collection The Ethnography of Cannibalism -- which, it has to be mentioned, is by no means incompetent. Buy this if you are interested in New Guinean cannibalism or the study of cannibalism in general. |
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The Anthropology of Cannibalism by Laurence R. Goldman (Paperback - October 30, 1999)
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