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The Man Eating Myth
Author | : William Arens |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1980-09-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780190281205 |
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A fascinating and well-researched look into what we really know about cannibalism.
Cannibal Talk
Author | : Gananath Obeyesekere |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2005-06-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520243088 |
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"A tour de force: meticulously argued, nuanced, and wideranging in its interpretations. In the hands of a master, the prodigious scholarship and large intellectual appetite make for a very convincing, comprehensive work."—George Marcus, coeditor of Writing Culture "The sheer scope of Cannibal Talk is remarkable, and its contribution to the anthropology of colonialism outstanding. Obeyesekere's research, original thinking, and applied reading are unrivalled on the discourses of cannibalism and their implications. "—Paul Lyons, University of Hawai'i
The Man eating Myth
Author | : William Arens |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:163440252 |
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Cannibalism and the Colonial World
Author | : Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margaret Iversen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1998-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052162908X |
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In this 1998 book, an international team from a variety of disciplines discusses the historical and cultural significance of cannibalism.
Monster of God The Man Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
Author | : David Quammen |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2004-09-17 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780393076301 |
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"Rich detail and vivid anecdotes of adventure....A treasure trove of exotic fact and hard thinking." —New York Times Book Review For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above—so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem. Casting his expert eye over the rapidly diminishing areas of wilderness where predators still reign, the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo and The Tangled Tree examines the fate of lions in India's Gir forest, of saltwater crocodiles in northern Australia, of brown bears in the mountains of Romania, and of Siberian tigers in the Russian Far East. In the poignant and troublesome ferocity of these embattled creatures, we recognize something primeval deep within us, something in danger of vanishing forever.
We Are All Cannibals
Author | : Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2016-03-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780231541268 |
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On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own custom barbarism," said Montaigne. In these essays, Claude Lévi-Strauss shows us behavior that is bizarre, shocking, and even revolting to outsiders but consistent with a people's culture and context. These essays relate meat eating to cannibalism, female circumcision to medically assisted reproduction, and mythic thought to scientific thought. They explore practices of incest and patriarchy, nature worship versus man-made material obsessions, the perceived threat of art in various cultures, and the innovations and limitations of secular thought. Lévi-Strauss measures the short distance between "complex" and "primitive" societies and finds a shared madness in the ways we enact myth, ritual, and custom. Yet he also locates a pure and persistent ethics that connects the center of Western civilization to far-flung societies and forces a reckoning with outmoded ideas of morality and reason.
Eaters of the Dead
Author | : Kevin J. Wetmore,Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2021-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781789144444 |
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Spanning myth, history, and contemporary culture, a terrifying and illuminating excavation of the meaning of cannibalism. Every culture has monsters that eat us, and every culture repels in horror when we eat ourselves. From Grendel to medieval Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean, and from the Ghuls of ancient Persia to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, tales of being consumed are both universal and universally terrifying. In this book, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. explores the full range of monsters that eat the dead: ghouls, cannibals, wendigos, and other beings that feast on human flesh. Moving from myth through history to contemporary popular culture, Wetmore considers everything from ancient Greek myths of feeding humans to the gods, through sky burial in Tibet and Zoroastrianism, to actual cases of cannibalism in modern societies. By examining these seemingly inhuman acts, Eaters of the Dead reveals that those who consume corpses can teach us a great deal about human nature—and our deepest human fears.
The Diet Myth
Author | : Tim Spector |
Publsiher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2015-09-08 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781468312843 |
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“A concise, entertaining book that demystifies the benefits of balanced microbes through healthier eating” by a physician and professor of epidemiology.(Kirkus Reviews)