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To Feast on Us as Their Prey

Author : Rachel B. Herrmann
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781682260814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book To Feast on Us as Their Prey written by Rachel B. Herrmann and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2020 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award, Edited Volume Long before the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, colony and its Starving Time of 1609–1610—one of the most famous cannibalism narratives in North American colonial history—cannibalism played an important role in shaping the human relationship to food, hunger, and moral outrage. Why did colonial invaders go out of their way to accuse women of cannibalism? What challenges did Spaniards face in trying to explain Eucharist rites to Native peoples? What roles did preconceived notions about non-Europeans play in inflating accounts of cannibalism in Christopher Columbus’s reports as they moved through Italian merchant circles? Asking questions such as these and exploring what it meant to accuse someone of eating people as well as how cannibalism rumors facilitated slavery and the rise of empires, To Feast on Us as Their Prey posits that it is impossible to separate histories of cannibalism from the role food and hunger have played in the colonization efforts that shaped our modern world.

The Tropics Bite Back

Author : Valérie Loichot
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452939314
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Tropics Bite Back written by Valérie Loichot and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-04-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ubiquitous presence of food and hunger in Caribbean writing—from folktales, fiction, and poetry to political and historical treatises—signals the traumas that have marked the Caribbean from the Middle Passage to the present day. The Tropics Bite Back traces the evolution of the Caribbean response to the colonial gaze (or rather the colonial mouth) from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Unlike previous scholars, Valérie Loichot does not read food simply as a cultural trope. Instead, she is interested in literary cannibalism, which she interprets in parallel with theories of relation and creolization. For Loichot, “the culinary” is an abstract mode of resistance and cultural production. The Francophone and Anglophone authors whose works she interrogates—including Patrick Chamoiseau, Suzanne Césaire, Aimé Césaire, Maryse Condé, Edwidge Danticat, Édouard Glissant, Lafcadio Hearn, and Dany Laferrière—“bite back” at the controlling images of the cannibal, the starved and starving, the cunning cook, and the sexualized octoroon with the ultimate goal of constructing humanity through structural, literal, or allegorical acts of ingesting, cooking, and eating. The Tropics Bite Back employs cross-disciplinary methods to rethink notions of race and literary influence by providing a fresh perspective on forms of consumption both metaphorical and material.

The Man-Eating Myth

Author : William Arens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190281200
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Man-Eating Myth written by William Arens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1980-09-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and well-researched look into what we really know about cannibalism.

Mother for Dinner

Author : Shalom Auslander
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698188381
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Mother for Dinner written by Shalom Auslander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the author of Foreskin's Lament, a novel of identity, tribalism, and mothers. Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother's last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed, she whispers in his ear the two words he always knew she would: "Eat me." This is not unusual, as the Seltzers are Cannibal-Americans, a once proud and thriving ethnic group, but for Seventh, it raises some serious questions, both practical and emotional. Of practical concern, his dead mother is six-foot-two and weighs about four hundred and fifty pounds. Even divided up between Seventh and his eleven brothers, that's a lot of red meat. Plus Second keeps kosher, Ninth is vegan, First hated her, and Sixth is dead. To make matters worse, even if he can wrangle his brothers together for a feast, the Can-Am people have assimilated, and the only living Cannibal who knows how to perform the ancient ritual is their Uncle Ishmael, whose erratic understanding of their traditions leads to conflict. Seventh struggles with his mother's deathbed request. He never loved her, but the sense of guilt and responsibility he feels--to her and to his people and to his "unique cultural heritage"--is overwhelming. His mother always taught him he was a link in a chain, thousands of people long, stretching back hundreds of years. But, as his brother First says, he's getting tired of chains. Irreverent and written with Auslander's incomparable humor, Mother for Dinner is an exploration of legacy, assimilation, the things we owe our families, and the things we owe ourselves.

Feast

Author : Graham Masterton
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 9781558171039
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Feast written by Graham Masterton and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A restaurant critic and his young son visit a New England eatery in Allen's Corners, where, unknown to outsiders, children are being abducted and devoured by evil forces

Eaters of the Dead

Author : Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789144450
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Eaters of the Dead written by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

An Intellectual History of Cannibalism

Author : Ctlin Avramescu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691152195
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book An Intellectual History of Cannibalism written by Ctlin Avramescu and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Based on the research he undertook in rare book collections housed in Scotland, the United States, Finland, Iceland, Holland, Germany and Austria, the author presents a systematic history of cannabalism as reflected in the mirror of philosophy.

Cannibals

Author : Frank Lestringant
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745616971
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Cannibals written by Frank Lestringant and published by Polity. This book was released on 1997-05-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Lestringant is one of the foremost authorities on European encounters with the New World. This book is a fascinating account of the existence of New World cannibalism and the images it conjured up for Europeans from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Lestringant describes how European voyagers, divines and missionaries encountered the cannibalistic cultures and represented them in their journals and writings. Mapping the origins and evolution of the word 'cannibal', Lestringant describes the symbolic uses of cannibalism by authors, political theorists and theologians. In a wide-ranging discussion he surveys the myth and the reality of the cannibal, and explores the deployment of the image in European literature and legend. Lestringant argues that sixteenth-century travellers and writers turned the figure of the man-eating savage of the Americas into a positive figure, a hero who devoured his defeated enemy in accordance with custom and not in order to satisfy some cruel instinct. Two centuries later the philosophers of the Enlightenment used the figure of the cannibal in their fight against the colonialists and Catholics. But the positive image of the cannibal suffered a reversal at the end of the eighteenth century, becoming a hateful figure and arousing the primitivist dreams of Sade and Flaubert. Written in a lively and accessible style, this engaging book will be welcomed by students and researchers in a wide range of discipines - early modern history, European literature, anthropology and religious studies - as well as anyone interested in the history of cannibalism.

We Dine with Cannibals

Author : C. Alexander London
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142424749
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book We Dine with Cannibals written by C. Alexander London and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver and Celia Navel have suffered through a whole summer exploring with their father’s nemesis Sir Edmund, and are ready to begin a new school year glued to the TV. But when their mother vanishes (again) in search of the Lost City of Gold: El Dorado, the twins must trek from the ruins of ancient temples through the shadowy forests of the Amazon. This time, they’ll need all their reality TV survival skills to brave raging river rapids, furious fire ants, and a most unusual jungle feast. Worst of all, if they can’t outsmart the bad guys, they’re going to miss all their favorite television shows!

We Are All Cannibals

Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541260
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book We Are All Cannibals written by Claude Lévi-Strauss and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England

Author : David B. Goldstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107512719
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England written by David B. Goldstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David B. Goldstein argues for a new understanding of Renaissance England from the perspective of communal eating. Rather than focus on traditional models of interiority, choice and consumption, Goldstein demonstrates that eating offered a central paradigm for the ethics of community formation. The book examines how sharing food helps build, demarcate and destroy relationships – between eater and eaten, between self and other, and among different groups. Tracing these eating relations from 1547 to 1680 - through Shakespeare, Milton, religious writers and recipe book authors - Goldstein shows that to think about eating was to engage in complex reflections about the body's role in society. In the process, he radically rethinks the communal importance of the Protestant Eucharist. Combining historicist literary analysis with insights from social science and philosophy, the book's arguments reverberate well beyond the Renaissance. Ultimately, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England forces us to rethink our own relationship to food.

The Cannibal Hymn

Author : Christopher Eyre
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853237068
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Cannibal Hymn written by Christopher Eyre and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cannibal Hymn forms a self-standing episode in the ritual anthology that makes up the Pyramid Texts, first appearing in the tomb of Unas at the end of the Fifth Dynasty. Its style and format are characteristic of the oral-recitational poetry of pharaonic Egypt, marked by allusive metaphor and the exploitation of wordplay and homophony in its verbal recreation of a butchery ritual. Christopher Eyre examines the text of the Cannibal Hymn in its performative and cultural context: the detailed mythologization of the sacrificial process in this hymn poses key questions about the nature of rites of passage and rituals of sacrifice in Egypt, and in particular about the mobilization of oral accompaniment to ritual actions.

Cannibal Writes

Author : Njeri Githire
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096746
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Cannibal Writes written by Njeri Githire and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial and diaspora studies scholars and critics have paid increasing attention to the use of metaphors of food, eating, digestion, and various affiliated actions such as loss of appetite, indigestion, and regurgitation. As such stylistic devices proliferated in the works of non-Western women writers, scholars connected metaphors of eating and consumption to colonial and imperial domination. In Cannibal Writes, Njeri Githire concentrates on the gendered and sexualized dimensions of these visceral metaphors of consumption in works by women writers from Haiti, Jamaica, Mauritius, and elsewhere. Employing theoretical analysis and insightful readings of English- and French-language texts, she explores the prominence of alimentary-related tropes and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, global geopolitics and economic dynamics, and migration. As she shows, the use of cannibalism in particular as a central motif opens up privileged modes for mediating historical and sociopolitical issues. Ambitiously comparative, Cannibal Writes ranges across the works of well-known and lesser known writers to tie together two geographic and cultural spaces that have much in common but are seldom studied in parallel.

Cannibals and Kings

Author : Marvin Harris
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307801233
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Cannibals and Kings written by Marvin Harris and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted for the evolution of biological forms: to show how cultures adopt their characteristic forms in response to changing ecological modes. "[A] magisterial interpretation of the rise and fall of human cultures and societies." -- Robert Lekachman, Washington Post Book World "Its persuasive arguments asserting the primacy of cultural rather than genetic or psychological factors in human life deserve the widest possible audience." -- Gloria Levitas The New Leader "[An] original and...urgent theory about the nature of man and at the reason that human cultures take so many diverse shapes." -- The New Yorker "Lively and controversial." -- I. Bernard Cohen, front page, The New York Times Book Review

Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism

Author : Giulia Champion
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000373894
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism written by Giulia Champion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism: Bites Here and There brings together a range of works exploring the evolution of cannibalism, literally and metaphorically, diachronically and across disciplines. This edited collection aims to promote a conversation on the evolution and the different uses of the tropes and figures of cannibalism, in order to understand and deconstruct the fascination with anthropophagy, its continued afterlife and its relation to different disciplines and spaces of discourse. In order to do so, the contributing authors shed a new light not only on the concept, but also propose to explore cannibalism through new optics and theories. Spanning 15 chapters, the collection explores cannibalism across disciplines and fields from Antiquity to contemporary speculative fiction, considering history, anthropology, visual and film studies, philosophy, feminist theories, psychoanalysis and museum practices. This collection of thoughtful and thought-provoking scholarly contributions suggests the importance of cannibalism in understanding human history and social relations.

The Cannibal Cookbook

Author : Nico Claux
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book The Cannibal Cookbook written by Nico Claux and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a book to show to your friends when they are home for dinner? The Cannibal Cookbook is exactly what its title proclaims. Written by former French cannibal murderer Nico Claux, this book explores one of the most taboo forms of cuisine. It is a world tour of gastronomical human meat recipes tried and tested by real life human flesh eaters, like Jeffrey Dahmer or Albert Fish. This cookbook will help you choose the right spices for your own cannibal feast. Precious advice is given on how to get ahold of that very special meat, and how to cut it like a pro. This book is the perfect gift for those who both love fine food and the macabre.

Cannibal Talk

Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520243080
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Cannibal Talk written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-06-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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