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Edible people : the historical consumption of slaves and foreigners and the cannibalistic trade in human flesh
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Edible people : the historical consumption of slaves and foreigners and the cannibalistic trade in human flesh / Christian Siefkes.
ISBN
9781800736139
1800736134
9781800736146
Publication
New York : Berghahn, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
viii, 332 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Summary
"While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to slavery: the fact that in some societies slaves and persons captured in slave raids could be, and were, killed and eaten. This book explores these largely forgotten practices and ignored connections while making exploring the links between cannibal acts, imperialist influences and the role of capitalist trading practices that are highly important for the history of the slave trade and for understanding the colonialist history of Africa"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Siefkes, Christian. Edible people [New York, New York] : Berghahn Books, 2022
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 29, 2022
Series
The anthropology of food and nutrition ; volume 11
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A taxonomy of cannibal practices
Slave eating in New Zealand
Slave eating in the Bismarck Archipelago and Sumatra
Ivory, slavery, and slave eating in the Congo Basin
The roles of Arab-Swahili merchants and the Congo Free State
Understanding Congolese slave eating
Commercial and economic aspects of Congolese cannibalism
Exploitation and patriarchy in the Congo
The Jameson affair
The question of European influences and the Obeyesekere conjecture
Foreigner poaching in New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago
Foreigner poaching in Fiji and Central Africa
The trade in human flesh and in "edible" corpses
Famine and commercial cannibalism in China
Warfare and culinary cannibalism in China.
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