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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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: A Hobbesian Life Raft; Chapter Two: The Tortures and Fate of the Body; Chapter Three: Creatures of Evil; Chapter Four: The Conquest of the Savages; Chapter Five: The Predicaments of Identity; Chapter Six: A Question of Taste; Chapter Seven: The Anthropophagus in the City; Chapter Eight: The Agent of Absolute Cruelty; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.