Francis Barker / Peter Hulme / Margaret Iversen (eds.)

Cannibalism and the Colonial World

Herausgeber: Barker, Francis; Iversen, Margaret; Hulme, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this 1998 book, an international team from a variety of disciplines discusses the historical and cultural significance of cannibalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9780521621182
• ISBN-10: 0521621186
• Artikelnr.: 29339488

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The cannibal scene Peter Hulme; 2. Rethinking
anthropophagy William Arens; 3. Cannibal feasts in nineteenth-century Fiji:
seamen's yarns and the ethnographic imagination Gananath Obeyesekere; 4.
Brazilian anthropophagy revisited Sergio Luiz Prado Bellei; 5. Lapses in
taste: 'cannibal-tropicalist' cinema and the Brazilian aesthetic of
underdevelopment Luis Madureira; 6. Ghost stories, bone flutes, cannibal
countermemory Graham Huggan; 7. Cronos and the political economy of
vampirism: notes on a historical constellation John Kraniauskas; 8. Fee fie
fo fum: the child in the jaws of the story Marina Warner; 9. Cannibalism
qua capitalism: the metaphorics of accumulation in Marx, Conrad,
Shakespeare and Marlowe Jerry Phillips; 10. Consumerism, or the cultural
logic of late cannibalism Crystal Bartolovich; 11. The function of
cannibalism at the present time Maggie Kilgour.