Edible people the historical consumption of slaves and foreigners and the cannibalistic trade in human flesh
"While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to sl...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, Oxford
Berghahn Books
2022
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| Schriftenreihe: | The anthropology of food and nutrition
volume 11 |
| Schlagworte: |
Sklaverei
> Geschichte
> Welt
> Cannibalism
> History
> Slaves
> Violence against
> Xenophobia
> Slave trade
> Kannibalismus
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to slavery: the fact that in some societies slaves and persons captured in slave raids could be, and were, killed and eaten. This book explores these largely forgotten practices and ignored connections while making exploring the links between cannibal acts, imperialist influences and the role of capitalist trading practices that are highly important for the history of the slave trade and for understanding the colonialist history of Africa." A taxonomy of cannibal practices -- Slave eating in New Zealand -- Slave eating in the Bismarck Archipelago and Sumatra -- Ivory, slavery, and slave eating in the Congo Basin -- The roles of Arab-Swahili merchants and the Congo Free State -- Understanding Congolese slave eating -- Commercial and economic aspects of Congolese cannibalism -- Exploitation and patriarchy in the Congo -- The Jameson affair -- The question of European influences and the Obeyesekere conjecture -- Foreigner poaching in New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago -- Foreigner poaching in Fiji and Central Africa -- The trade in human flesh and in "edible" corpses -- Famine and commercial cannibalism in China -- Warfare and culinary cannibalism in China. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 332 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781800736139 978-1-80073-613-9 |