Cannibalism and the Colonial World
Cannibalism and the Colonial World
Peter Hulme, University of Essex
Margaret Iversen, University of Essex
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USDIn Cannibalism and the Colonial World, published in 1998, an international team of specialists from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, literature, art history - discusses the historical and cultural significance of western fascination with the topic of cannibalism. Addressing the image as it appears in a series of texts - popular culture, film, literature, travel writing and anthropology - the essays range from classical times to contemporary critical discourse. Cannibalism and the Colonial World examines western fascination with the figure of the cannibal and how this has impacted on the representation of the non-western world. This group of literary and anthropological scholars analyses the way cannibalism continues to exist as a term within colonial discourse and places the discussion of cannibalism in the context of postcolonial and cultural studies.
- Contributors include William Arens, author of The Man-Eating Myth
- Proceedings of specially organised and prestigious Essex symposium on a very topical theme in postcolonial studies
- Interdisciplinary approach with anthropologists, literary scholars, art historians
- Covers wide range of geographical sites and ranges from classical to contemporary times
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"...Cannibalism and the Colonial World makes significant contributions to the critical analysis of key problems in current academic debates such as the political and epistemological authority of anthropology, the representation of otherness in classic colonialism and modern (neo)colonialism, different attitudes towards cultural influence and modernization, and the strong relations that the cannibal trope has with major postmodern topics like consumption, and the globalization process."
-Carlos Jauregui, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies
Product details
August 1998Paperback
9780521629089
324 pages
218 × 140 × 20 mm
0.396kg
13 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 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.
