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An Intellectual History of Cannibalism /

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 shipwrecke...

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Autor principal: Avramescu, Cătălin, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Romanian
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.
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