The Man-Eating Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Man-Eating Myth write by William Arens. This book was released on 1980-09-25. The Man-Eating Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating and well-researched look into what we really know about cannibalism.
Cannibal Talk
Cannibal Talk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cannibal Talk write by Gananath Obeyesekere. This book was released on 2005-06-06. Cannibal Talk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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
The Man-eating Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Man-eating Myth write by William Arens. This book was released on 1980. The Man-eating Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Eaters of the Dead
Eaters of the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eaters of the Dead write by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.. This book was released on 2021-09-16. Eaters of the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
We Are All Cannibals
We Are All Cannibals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We Are All Cannibals write by Claude Lévi-Strauss. This book was released on 2016-03-15. We Are All Cannibals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
