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Cannibalism --- Cannibalisme --- Anthropophagy --- Ethnology --- Cannibalism.
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Cannibalism --- Cannibalisme --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Congrès
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Thematology --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Iconography --- Cannibalism. --- Cannibalism in literature. --- Cannibalisme --- Cannibalisme dans la littérature --- Cannibalism in literature.. --- Cannibalisme dans la littérature
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Cannibalism --- Cannibalisme --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Anthropophagy --- Ethnology
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Lorsqu'au xvie siècle les mangeurs d'hommes - les anthropophages - reçoivent le nom de cannibales, c'est aussi une tradition millénaire qui adopte des formes nouvelles. Avant Colomb, il y a en effet une histoire occidentale de l'homme comme nourriture, mais celle-ci reste en grande partie à écrire. Le présent ouvrage contribue à combler cette lacune. Dans les récits et les images de l'ethnographie ancienne, l'anthropophage, qu'il mange ses ennemis ou ses défunts bien-aimés, est un être lointain, dont les coutumes bousculent les normes culturelles occidentales. Menace distante, alors, le cannibale ? Bien au contraire : on dit de groupes et d'individus marginaux qu'ils convoitent la chair d'enfants innocents pour leurs mystérieux rituels. On parle aussi d'affamés qui n'hésitent pas à dévorer leurs proches, de femmes désespérées qui mangent leurs enfants. Pendant ce temps, pourtant, du sang humain soigne, stimule, rassasie ou sanctifie, tandis que de pieux chrétiens consomment la chair du Christ sous les apparences de l'hostie. À l'aide des méthodes de l'histoire et des disciplines sœurs, l'auteur reconstitue un portrait tout en contrastes du tabou alimentaire par excellence. Entre imaginaires plus ou moins informés et réalités plus ou moins déformées, un parcours varié et étonnant se dessine.
Anthropology --- anthropologie --- histoire --- anthropophagie --- cannibalisme --- Moyen Âge --- Moyen Âge
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"It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then, governments initiated the Transition. Now, 'special meat' - human meat - is legal. Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans only no one calls them that. He works with numbers, consignments, processing. One day, he's given a gift to seal a deal: a specimen of the finest quality. He leaves her in his barn, tied up, a problem to be disposed of later. But the specimen haunts Marcos. Her trembling body, her eyes that watch him, that seem to understand. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost - and what might still be saved."--Publisher
Cannibalism --- Cannibalism. --- Cannibalisme --- Executions and executioners --- Psychological aspects
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Human body --- Spirit possession --- Cannibalism --- Corps humain --- Possession par les esprits --- Cannibalisme --- Sociologie du corps --- Esprit et corps --- Anthropologie
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In this radical reexamination of the notion of cannibalism, Gananath Obeyesekere offers a fascinating and convincing argument that cannibalism is mostly "cannibal talk," a discourse on the Other engaged in by both indigenous peoples and colonial intruders that results in sometimes funny and sometimes deadly cultural misunderstandings. Turning his keen intelligence to Polynesian societies in the early periods of European contact and colonization, Obeyesekere deconstructs Western eyewitness accounts, carefully examining their origins and treating them as a species of fiction writing and seamen's yarns. Cannibalism is less a social or cultural fact than a mythic representation of European writing that reflects much more the realities of European societies and their fascination with the practice of cannibalism, he argues. And while very limited forms of cannibalism might have occurred in Polynesian societies, they were largely in connection with human sacrifice and carried out by a select community in well-defined sacramental rituals. Cannibal Talk considers how the colonial intrusion produced a complex self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the fantasy of cannibalism became a reality as natives on occasion began to eat both Europeans and their own enemies in acts of "conspicuous anthropophagy."
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Linking cannibalism to issues of difference crucial to contemporary literary criticism and theory, the essays included here cover material from a variety of contexts and historical periods and approach their subjects from a range of critical perspectives. Along with such canonical works as The Odyssey, The Faerie Queene, and Robinson Crusoe, the contributors also discuss lesser known works, including a version of the Victorian melodrama Sweeny Todd, as well as contemporary postcolonial and postmodern novels by Margaret Atwood and Ian Wedde. Taken together, these essays re-theorize the relationship between cannibalism and cultural identity, making cannibalism meaningful within new critical and cultural horizons.Contributors include Mark Buchan, Santiago Colas, Marlene Goldman, Brian Greenspan, Kristen Guest, Minaz Jooma, Robert Viking O'Brien, Geoffrey Sanborn, and Julia M. Wright.
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