In Cannibalism and the Colonial World, an international team of specialists from a variety of disciplines discusses the historical and cultural significance of Western fascination with the topic of cannibalism. Addressing the image as it appears in a series of texts--popular culture, film, literature, travel writing and anthropology--the essays range from classical times to contemporary critical discourse. This group of literary and anthropological scholars places the discussion of cannibalism in the context of postcolonial and cultural studies.
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"...Cannibalism and the Colonial World makes significant contributions to the critical analysis of key problems in current academic debates such as the political and epistemological authority of anthropology, the representation of otherness in classic colonialism and modern (neo)colonialism, different attitudes towards cultural influence and modernization, and the strong relations that the cannibal trope has with major postmodern topics like consumption, and the globalization process." Carlos A Jauregui, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies
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In Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971: 338), Keith Thomas informs us that astrologers of an earlier age were often wrong in their predictions but rarely embarrassed by this outcome. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shipboard journalism, epiphanic history, cannibal scene, cannibal ghost, cannibal appetite, supplementary logic, cannibal stories, absolute consumption, cannibal feast, foreign discourses, primitive accumulation, bone flute, ritual cannibalism, living labour Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cannibal Jack, New Guinea, John Jackson, Divers Voyages, Oswald de Andrade, Haroldo de Campos, South Seas, Cinema Novo, Latin America, Revista de Antropofagia, William Arens, Buffalo Bill, Captain Archer, Rio de Janeiro, United States, Augusto de Campos, Cannibal Killer, David Whippy, Guillermo del Toro, Hannibal Lecter, King Kong, Peter Hulme, Principal Navigations, Adam Smith, Benedito Nunes New!
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In Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971: 338), Keith Thomas informs us that astrologers of an earlier age were often wrong in their predictions but rarely embarrassed by this outcome. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
shipboard journalism, epiphanic history, cannibal scene, cannibal ghost, cannibal appetite, supplementary logic, cannibal stories, absolute consumption, cannibal feast, foreign discourses, primitive accumulation, bone flute, ritual cannibalism, living labour Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cannibal Jack, New Guinea, John Jackson, Divers Voyages, Oswald de Andrade, Haroldo de Campos, South Seas, Cinema Novo, Latin America, Revista de Antropofagia, William Arens, Buffalo Bill, Captain Archer, Rio de Janeiro, United States, Augusto de Campos, Cannibal Killer, David Whippy, Guillermo del Toro, Hannibal Lecter, King Kong, Peter Hulme, Principal Navigations, Adam Smith, Benedito Nunes New!
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- My Bone and My Flute (Drumbeats) by Edgar Mittelholzer on 5 pages
- New Guinea (World's Wild Places) by Roy D. Mackay on 4 pages
- The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris on 4 pages
- The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon by Edgar Allan Poe on 4 pages
- Laughing Death: The Untold Story of Kuru by Vincent Zigas on 4 pages
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- Heterotropias: narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana (Spanish Edition) by Carlos A. Jauregui on 4 pages
- Toward Consilience: The Bioneurological Basis of Behavior, Thought, Experience, and Language by Gerald A. Cory Jr. on 4 pages
- The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity by Shalini Puri on 4 pages
- Reason and Its Others: Italy, Spain, and the New World (Hispanic Issues (Vanderbilt Paperback)) by David R. Castillo on 4 pages
- Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas by Gananath Obeyesekere in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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