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Our cannibals, ourselves /

Why does Western culture remain fascinated with and saturated by cannibalism? Moving from the idea of the dangerous Other, Priscilla L. Walton's Our Cannibals, Ourselves shows us how modern-day cannibalism has been recaptured as in the vampire story, resurrected into the human blood stream, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Walton, Priscilla L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Donner, party of fifty!"
  • The body politic
  • "I want to bite your neck"
  • Dog eat dog : mad cow disease
  • Diet disorders
  • "If you love someone, hunt them down and kill them"
  • Cannibal culture.