In The Time Of Cannibals
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In The Time Of Cannibals
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Author : David B. Coplan
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1994
In The Time Of Cannibals written by David B. Coplan and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
The workers who migrate from Lesotho to the mines and cities of neighboring South Africa have developed a rich genre of sung oral poetry—word music—that focuses on the experiences of migrant life. This music provides a culturally reflexive and consciously artistic account of what it is to be a migrant or part of a migrant's life. It reveals the relationship between these Basotho workers and the local and South African powers that be, the "cannibals" who live off of the workers' labor. David Coplan presents a moving collection of material that for the first time reveals the expressive genius of these tenacious but disenfranchised people. Coplan discusses every aspect of the Basotho musical literature, taking into account historical conditions, political dynamics, and social forces as well as the styles, artistry, and occasions of performance. He engages the postmodern challenge to decolonize our representation of the ethnographic subject and demonstrates how performance formulates local knowledge and communicates its shared understandings. Complete with transcriptions of full male and female performances, this book develops a theoretical and methodological framework crucial to anyone seeking to understand the relationship between orality and literacy in the context of performance. This work is an important contribution to South African studies, to ethnomusicology and anthropology, and to performance studies in general.
In The Time Of Cannibals
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Author : David Bellin Coplan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
In The Time Of Cannibals written by David Bellin Coplan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Folk music categories.
The workers who migrate from Lesotho to South Africa have developed a genre of sung oral poetry that provides an account of what it is to be a migrant. This text discusses Basotho musical literature, taking into account historical conditions, political dynamics and social forces.
Cannibals
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Author : Joseph Cummins
language : en
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Release Date : 2001
Cannibals written by Joseph Cummins and has been published by Globe Pequot this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Cannibalism categories.
Here collected for the first time in one volume, are twenty accounts of humans eating humans - true stories that separate fact from fiction, exploring human depravity and the fight for survival.In Cannibals: Shocking True Tales of the Last Taboo on Land and at Sea, Joseph Cummins has assembled some of the most dramatic incidents of cannibalism in history. Cannibals draws from a powerful account of the disastrous Donner party expedition in the snows of the Sierra Nevada in 1847; from Nathaniel Philbrick's bestseller In the Heart of the Sea, about the wreck of the whaleship Essex in the South Pacific; and from Piers Paul Read's classic Alive, which relates the tragic aftermath of the crash of a Uruguayan airliner in the high Andes in 1972.But Cummins also brings together little-known and equally shocking true accounts - how marauding gangs of cannibals, circa 1150 A.D. may have destroyed a flourishing Southwestern civilization; how modern forensic evidence revealed the horrifying truth behind the vanished 1845 expedition of Arctic explorer John Franklin; how the Japanese practiced cannibalism on Allied soldiers during World War II; and much more.From the serial cannibals of post-World War I Germany to the current controversy over the prevalence of ritual cannibalism in history, Cannibals is both a dramatic document and a chance for us to learn more about this mysterious and little-understood activity. (6 1/4 x 9 1/4, 288 pages)
Our Cannibals Ourselves
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Author : Priscilla L. Walton
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2010-10-01
Our Cannibals Ourselves written by Priscilla L. Walton and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-01 with Social Science categories.
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 mutated into the theory of germs through AIDS, Ebola, and the like. At the same time, it has expanded to encompass the workings of entire economic systems (such as in "consumer cannnibalism"). Our Cannibals, Ourselves is an interdisciplinary study of cannibalism in contemporary culture. It demonstrates how what we take for today's ordinary culture is imaginatively and historically rooted in very powerful processes of the encounter between our own and different, often "threatening," cultures from around the world. Walton shows that the taboo on cannibalism is heavily reinforced only partly out of fear of cannibals themselves; instead, cannibalism is evoked in order to use fear for other purposes, including the sale of fear entertainment. Ranging from literature to popular journalism, film, television, and discourses on disease, Our Cannibals, Ourselves provides an all-encompassing, insightful meditation on what happens to popular culture when it goes global.
Dinner With A Cannibal
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Author : Carole A Travis-Henikoff
language : en
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Release Date : 2008-03-01
Dinner With A Cannibal written by Carole A Travis-Henikoff and has been published by Santa Monica Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-01 with Social Science categories.
Presenting the history of cannibalism in concert with human evolution, Dinner with a Cannibal takes its readers on an astonishing trip around the world and through history, examining its subject from every angle in order to paint the incredible, multifaceted panoply that is the reality of cannibalism. At the heart of Carole A. Travis-Henikoff’s book is the question of how cannibalism began with the human species and how it has become an unspeakable taboo today. At a time when science is being battered by religions and failing teaching methods, Dinner with a Cannibal presents slices of multiple sciences in a readable, understandable form nested within a wealth of data. With history, paleoanthropology, science, gore, sex, murder, war, culinary tidbits, medical facts, and anthropology filling its pages, Dinner with a Cannibal presents both the light and dark side of the human story; the story of how we came to be all the things we are today.
Cannibal
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Author : Lois Jones
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2005-01-04
Cannibal written by Lois Jones and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-04 with True Crime categories.
German native Armin Meiwes placed this ad in an internet chatroom catering to cannibals. He received 430 responses. Among them was Bernd Juergen Brandes, who arrived at Meiwes’s isolated country home literally to be eaten alive. Escorted to the “slaughtering room”—equipped with meat hooks, a cage, and a butcher’s table—Meiwes assisted Bernd in a gourmet candlelight dinner of his own cooked flesh. Meiwes then stabbed his victim in the throat—bringing the ghastly videotaped ordeal to an end. From a childhood perverted by unhealthy obsessions to his notorious trial that ended in a stunning verdict, Cannibal discloses for the first time the true story of a real-life Hannibal Lecter and his victim. And with details never before divulged to the public, it takes readers step-by-step through the unspeakable crime that fascinated and revolted the world. INCLUDES PHOTOS
Cannibal Fictions
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Author : Jeff Berglund
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2006
Cannibal Fictions written by Jeff Berglund and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
Objects of fear and fascination, cannibals have long signified an elemental "otherness," an existence outside the bounds of normalcy. In the American imagination, the figure of the cannibal has evolved tellingly over time, as Jeff Berglund shows in this study encompassing a strikingly eclectic collection of cultural, literary, and cinematic texts. Cannibal Fictions brings together two discrete periods in U.S. history: the years between the Civil War and World War I, the high-water mark in America's imperial presence, and the post-Vietnam era, when the nation was beginning to seriously question its own global agenda. Berglund shows how P. T. Barnum, in a traveling exhibit featuring so-called "Fiji cannibals," served up an alien "other" for popular consumption, while Edgar Rice Burroughs in his Tarzan of the Apes series tapped into similar anxieties about the eruption of foreign elements into a homogeneous culture. Turning to the last decades of the twentieth century, Berglund considers how treatments of cannibalism variously perpetuated or subverted racist, sexist, and homophobic ideologies rooted in earlier times. Fannie Flagg's novel Fried Green Tomatoes invokes cannibalism to new effect, offering an explicit critique of racial, gender, and sexual politics (an element to a large extent suppressed in the movie adaptation). Recurring motifs in contemporary Native American writing suggest how Western expansion has, cannibalistically, laid the seeds of its own destruction. And James Dobson's recent efforts to link the pro-life agenda to allegations of cannibalism in China testify still further to the currency and pervasiveness of this powerful trope. By highlighting practices that preclude the many from becoming one, these representations of cannibalism, Berglund argues, call into question the comforting national narrative of e pluribus unum.
Eat Me
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Author : Bill Schutt
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2017-01-19
Eat Me written by Bill Schutt and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-19 with History categories.
Cannibalism. It's the last, greatest taboo: the stuff of urban legends and ancient myths, airline crashes and Captain Cook. But while we might get a thrill at the thought of the black widow spider's gruesome mating habits or the tragic fate of the nineteenth-century Donner Party pioneers, today cannibalism belongs to history - or, at the very least, the realm of the weird, the rare and the very far away. Doesn't it? Here, zoologist Bill Schutt digs his teeth into the subject to find an answer that is as surprising as it is unsettling. From the plot of Psycho to the ritual of the Eucharist, cannibalism is woven into our history, our culture - even our medicine. And in the natural world, eating your own kind is everything from a survival strategy - practiced by polar bears and hamsters alike - to an evolutionary adaption like that found in sand tiger sharks, who, by the time they are born, will have eaten all but one of their siblings in the womb. Dark, fascinating and endlessly curious, Eat Me delves into human and animal cannibalism to find a story of colonialism, religion, anthropology, dinosaurs, ancient humans and modern consequences, from the terrible 'laughing death' disease kuru to the BSE crisis. And - of course - our intrepid author tries it out for himself. Published in partnership with Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and books explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death. Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome, a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive, funding over 14,000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries. wellcomecollection.org
Mummies Cannibals And Vampires
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Author : Richard Sugg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-11-06
Mummies Cannibals And Vampires written by Richard Sugg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-06 with History categories.
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an attempt to heal themselves of epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression. In this comprehensive and accessible text, Richard Sugg shows that, far from being a medieval therapy, corpse medicine was at its height during the social and scientific revolutions of early-modern Britain, surviving well into the eighteenth century and, amongst the poor, lingering stubbornly on into the time of Queen Victoria. Ranging from the execution scaffolds of Germany and Scandinavia, through the courts and laboratories of Italy, France and Britain, to the battlefields of Holland and Ireland, and on to the tribal man-eating of the Americas, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires argues that the real cannibals were in fact the Europeans. Picking our way through the bloodstained shadows of this remarkable secret history, we encounter medicine cut from bodies living and dead, sacks of human fat harvested after a gun battle, gloves made of human skin, and the first mummy to appear on the London stage. Lit by the uncanny glow of a lamp filled with human blood, this second edition includes new material on exo-cannibalism, skull medicine, the blood-drinking of Scandinavian executions, Victorian corpse-stroking, and the magical powers of candles made from human fat. In our quest to understand the strange paradox of routine Christian cannibalism we move from the Catholic vampirism of the Eucharist, through the routine filth and discomfort of early modern bodies, and in to the potent, numinous source of corpse medicine’s ultimate power: the human soul itself. Now accompanied by a companion website with supplementary articles, interviews with the author, related images, summaries of key topics, and a glossary, the second edition of Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires is an essential read for anyone interested in the history of medicine, early modern history, and the darker, hidden past of European Christendom.
From Soup To Nuts
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Author : Jon Macks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
From Soup To Nuts written by Jon Macks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Cooking categories.
In an age where the most bizarre alternative lifestyles are routinely accepted throughout society, there is one group that is still shunned by the masses, forced to practice its way of life in hiding. Until now. For a visionary has broken through the chains that have held his kinsmen down, a messiah has arisen to rescue his people and their rich dietary tradition. His name is Omnivorous. With FROM SOUP TO NUTS; THE CANNIBAL LOVER'S COOKBOOK, Omnivorous does much more than provide his followers with some of the world's best-loved cannibal recipes; in his own word the master provides "a joyous look at the entire annibal lifestyle," the definitive guide to better eating the cannibal way. With the world population at an all-time high, there has never been a better time to be a cannibal. Whether you're a longtime man-muncher of a novice with just a few friends under your belt, Omnivorous is here to show you the way!