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Eating and Being Eaten : Cannibalism as Food for Thought

This innovative book is an open invitation to a rich and copious meal of imagination, senses and desires. It argues that cannibalism is practised by all and sundry. In love or in hate, fear or fascination, purposefulness or indifference, individuals, cultures and societies are actively cannibalising...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : cannibalism as food for thought
  • The violence of translating people into cannibals : the man-eating anthropologists
  • Incorporated or cannibalised by posthuman others? Sanctions and witchcraft in contemporary Zimbabwe
  • 'The Body of Christ? Amen' : Christianity and the cannibalisation of the Bamenda Grassfielders (Cameroon)
  • Researching cannibalising obligations in post-apartheid South Africa
  • Lehu la gago le ya mphidisha 'your death nourishes me'
  • Rainbow nation of the flesh
  • My African heart : the obscure gourmandise of an enlightened man
  • Consumerisation of cannibalism in contemporary Japanese society.