The anthropology of cannibalism

edited by Laurence R. Goldman

The topic of cannibalism continues to be emblematic of people's ideas of the "exotic other". In addition to its lingering cultural meanings, the continued interest in the topic stems in part from the history of controversy about methods, evidence, and inference patterns within anthropology and archaeology. This work looks at how and why cannibalism was actually practised, both as part of a wider cultural system of meanings about reproduction and regeneration as well as how cannibalism as myth perpetuates political processes of stereotyping across cultures. Cannibalism exists in folklore traditions as the definition of the antithesis of socially accepted morality, as well as something that in practice was a conduit for the regeneration and reproduction of positive values. Cannibalism is seen as bound up with the commerce of exchange between people intent on defining their economic and political worlds in and through symbols. This book seeks to provide a set of correctives for both the academic discourse on cannibalism as well as the wider conventional beliefs about the topic.

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The topic of cannibalism continues to be emblematic of people's ideas of the "exotic other". In addition to its lingering cultural meanings, the continued interest in the topic stems in part from the history of controversy about methods, evidence, and inference patterns within anthropology and archaeology. This work looks at how and why cannibalism was actually practised, both as part of a wider cultural system of meanings about reproduction and regeneration as well as how cannibalism as myth perpetuates political processes of stereotyping across cultures. Cannibalism exists in folklore traditions as the definition of the antithesis of socially accepted morality, as well as something that in practice was a conduit for the regeneration and reproduction of positive values. Cannibalism is seen as bound up with the commerce of exchange between people intent on defining their economic and political worlds in and through symbols. This book seeks to provide a set of correctives for both the academic discourse on cannibalism as well as the wider conventional beliefs about the topic.

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[目次]

  • Anthropology, myth and the subtle ways of ethnocentrism
  • consuming doubts - what some people ate? Or what some people swallowed?
  • Ansazi mutilation and cannibalism in the American southwest
  • the white man as cannibal in the New Guinea highlands
  • Asmat cosmology and the practice of cannibalism
  • Onabasulu cannibalism and the moral agents of misfortune.

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[目次]

  • Anthropology, myth and the subtle ways of ethnocentrism
  • consuming doubts - what some people ate? Or what some people swallowed?
  • Ansazi mutilation and cannibalism in the American southwest
  • the white man as cannibal in the New Guinea highlands
  • Asmat cosmology and the practice of cannibalism
  • Onabasulu cannibalism and the moral agents of misfortune.

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この本の情報

書名 The anthropology of cannibalism
著作者等 Goldman, Laurence
Goldman L.R.
出版元 Bergin & Garvey
刊行年月 1999
ページ数 168 p.
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 0897895975
0897895967
NCID BA45221662
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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