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.

Download or read book Anthropophagy written by Charles W. Darling and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anthropophagy" is a privately printed work on cannibalism written by Gen. Charles W. Darling. The author took part in the Civil War, and after the peace was established, he traveled the world, collecting materials for many literary and scientific articles. This work discusses the cannibalistic practices from the Greek story of Odysseus to American Indians.

Download or read book The Man Eating Myth Anthropology and Anthropophagy written by William Arens and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1979-04-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anthropophagy and the New Brazilian Theatre written by David Sanderson George and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book I Am a Cannibal written by David Elio Malocco and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man Meets Man. Man falls in Love with Man. Man Eats Man.It could be the tag-line for a dozen low budget student Zombie movies but this story is true. After placing hundreds of ads on the website called The Cannibal Café seeking “Well-built men, 18-30, who would like to be eaten by me” forty year old German computer repair technician Armin Meiwes eventually met his match in forty three year old Berlin engineer Bernd Jürgen Armando Brandes. This just goes to show you that there is someone out there for all of us. The two men agreed to meet up at Meiwes's apartment in the small town of Rotenburg on Friday the 9 March 2001 and there wasn't a full moon in sight. With Bernd high on painkillers and Schnapps, Meiwes removed the man's penis with a knife and decided to sauté it in a pan with salt, pepper, wine and a little garlic. The whole episode was filmed by them on videotape. From that video it appears that Bernd collapsed and lost consciousness from the loss of blood. Meanwhile, Meiwes spent the next three hours reading a Star Trek book while Bernd bled to death in the bath. It certainly was a night to remember.Meiwes ate the body over the next ten months. He stored body parts in his freezer under pizza boxes and consumed up to 20 kilograms (44 lbs.) of the flesh. Meiwes was arrested in December 2002 and mid a media frenzy after a college student in Innsbruck phoned the police when he saw new advertisements for victims and details of the killing on the Internet. Investigators searched his home and was later found guilty of murder and given a life sentence. Meiwes was far from Germany's first cannibal. Before him we had Fritz Haarmann, Joachim Kroll, Karl Denke, Carl Großmann and Peter Stumpp. And he certainly is going to be the last one either. In December 2013 Der Spiegel reported the case of alleged cannibalism near the Czech border in Germany. The murder was allegedly committed by a fifty five year old police officer working as a handwriting analyst in the Dresden office of the State Criminal Police. The policeman admitted to killing the fifty nine year old Polish-born businessman from Hanover. Apparently they met on a cannibalism fantasy forum.This fascinating study of cannibalism traces its history and origin and focusses on nine of the world's most notorious cannibal serial killers: Albert Fish, Friedrich Haarmann, Joachim Kroll, Andrei Chikatilo, Henry Lee Lucas, Ottis Elwood Toole, Richard Trenton Chase, Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, and, of course, Jeffrey Dahmer.A hugely enjoyable read from best-selling writer David E. Malocco, author of Serial Sex Killers-Real American Psychos; Sexual Psychopaths; Who's Who Serial Killers-The Top 100; Forensic Science-Crime Scene Analysis; Wicked Women; Murder for Profit and the World's Worst Serial Killers.

Download or read book Anthropophagy written by Charles William Darling and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Intellectual History of Cannibalism written by Cătălin Avramescu and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine cannibals and related horrible stories of shipwrecked travelers eating each other. An Intellectual History of Cannibalism is the first book to systematically examine the role of the cannibal in the arguments of philosophers, from the classical period to modern disputes about such wide-ranging issues as vegetarianism and the right to private property. Catalin Avramescu shows how the cannibal is, before anything else, a theoretical creature, one whose fate sheds light on the decline of theories of natural law, the emergence of modernity, and contemporary notions about good and evil. This provocative history of ideas traces the cannibal's appearance throughout Western thought, first as a creature springing from the menagerie of natural law, later as a diabolical retort to theological dogmas about the resurrection of the body, and finally to present-day social, ethical, and political debates in which the cannibal is viewed through the lens of anthropology or invoked in the service of moral relativism. Ultimately, An Intellectual History of Cannibalism is the story of the birth of modernity and of the philosophies of culture that arose in the wake of the Enlightenment. It is a book that lays bare the darker fears and impulses that course through the Western intellectual tradition.

Download or read book Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism written by Giulia Champion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 302 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.

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

Download or read book Food for Thought written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using visual narrative as avehicle for expressing scholarlyresearch, the nine "graphic essays" in this collection examinetopics related literally and metaphorically to cannibalism, oranthropophagy. And while experimenting with the presentationof empirical and theoretical arguments, these essaysalso reach across multiple disciplines, bringing together workin the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.From the writers' perspectives, these graphic essays aredesigned to be provocative, to stimulate discussion in hopesof inspiring reaction as well as additional study. The artistshave worked to show how the visual dimension impliesadditional levels of argument for each of the chapters. Theresults will challenge and intrigue you.

Download or read book Anthropophagy written by Guy Deloeuvre and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a form of cannibalism, but it is exclusively for the human species. A distinction is made between funeral endocannibalism, which consists of eating the members of one human group, and warrior exocannibalism, which consists of eating members of another human group. Anthropophagy seems to have been practiced since the Palaeolithic period. Traces of carving have been observed on prehistoric human bones, but these clues are not evidence of anthropophagy. It is often difficult to distinguish funerary practices, with post-mortem unloading of the bodies, from anatomically identical actions for anthropophagic purposes (neolithic cave of Fontbrégoua, in Salernes and Adaouste, near Jouques in France). Thus, from the beginning, the earliest prehistorians, such as Édouard Piette who studied the fossils of Gourdan-Polignan in 1871, then Gabriel de Mortillet, attributed these marks of carving to funeral rites. Anthropophagy is considered probable in some Lower Palaeolithic sites such as Gran Dolina in Atapuerca, Spain or the Caune de l' Arago in France, Middle Palaeolithic sites such as the Moula-Guercy Balm in Soya in France, in Mesolithic sites (the Perrats cave in Agris) and in more recent North American populations (site of the Perrats). While some cultures have had socially instituted cannibal practices, occasional anthropophagy in the event of severe shortages (family or loss of food reserves on a boat) has been a recurrent practice in all societies. The team of paleoanthropologist José María Bermúdez de Castro who has re-examined the bones of the Gran Dolina cave suggests anthropophagy as a common practice. There are bones with traces of cuts made by stone tools and broken as if to extract the marrow, or skulls with decapitation marks. Killing young - and therefore defenceless - members of rival tribes to limit competition in the same territory, and consuming their flesh to satisfy protein needs would seem to be a widespread strategy at Homo antecessor.

Download or read book Cannibalism and the Colonial World written by Francis Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cannibalism and the Colonial World, published in 1998, an international team of specialists from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, literature, art history - 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. Cannibalism and the Colonial World examines western fascination with the figure of the cannibal and how this has impacted on the representation of the non-western world. This group of literary and anthropological scholars analyses the way cannibalism continues to exist as a term within colonial discourse and places the discussion of cannibalism in the context of postcolonial and cultural studies.

Download or read book Divine Hunger written by Peggy Reeves Sanday and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-07-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of cannibalism is in certain cultures rejected as evil, while in others it plays a central part in the ritual order. Anthropologists have offered various explanations for the existence of cannibalism, none of which, Peggy Sanday claims, is adequate. In this book she presents a new approach to understanding the phenomenon. Through a detailed examination of ritual cannibalism in selected tribal societies, and a comparison of those cases with others in which the practice is absent, she shows that cannibalism is closely linked to people's orientation to the world, and that it serves as a concrete device for distinguishing the 'cultural self' from the 'natural other'. Combining perspectives drawn from the work of Ricoeur, Freud, Hegel, and Jung and from symbolic anthropology, Sanday argues that ritual cannibalism is intimately connected both with the constructs by which the origin and continuity of life are understood and assured from one generation to the next and with the way in which that understanding is used to control the vital forces considered necessary for the cannibalism in a culture derives from basic human attitudes toward life and death, combined with the realities of the material world. As well as making an original contribution to the understanding of the significant human practice, Sanday also develops a theoretical argument of wider relevance to anthropologists, sociologists, and other readers interested in the function and meaning of cannibalism.

Download or read book Insatiable Appetites written by Kelly L. Watson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this comparative history of cross-cultural encounters in the early North Atlantic world, Kelly L. Watson argues that the persistent rumours of cannibalism surrounding Native Americans served a specific and practical purpose for European settlers. As they forged new identities and found ways to not only subdue but also co-exist with native peoples, the cannibal narrative helped to establish hierarchical categories of European superiority and Native inferiority upon which imperial power in the Americas was predicated."--Cover.

Download or read book Anthropophagy written by Charles William Darling and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unthinking Eurocentrism written by Ella Shohat and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Eurocentrism.

Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of Food Issues written by Ken Albala and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 1635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Food Issues explores the topic of food across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and related areas including business, consumerism, marketing, and environmentalism. In contrast to the existing reference works on the topic of food that tend to fall into the categories of cultural perspectives, this carefully balanced academic encyclopedia focuses on social and policy aspects of food production, safety, regulation, labeling, marketing, distribution, and consumption. A sampling of general topic areas covered includes Agriculture, Labor, Food Processing, Marketing and Advertising, Trade and Distribution, Retail and Shopping, Consumption, Food Ideologies, Food in Popular Media, Food Safety, Environment, Health, Government Policy, and Hunger and Poverty. This encyclopedia introduces students to the fascinating, and at times contentious, and ever-so-vital field involving food issues. Key Features: Contains approximately 500 signed entries concluding with cross-references and suggestions for further readings Organized A-to-Z with a thematic "Reader’s Guide" in the front matter grouping related entries by general topic area Provides a Resource Guide and a detailed and comprehensive Index along with robust search-and-browse functionality in the electronic edition This three-volume reference work will serve as a general, non-technical resource for students and researchers who seek to better understand the topic of food and the issues surrounding it.