Cannibalism and the Colonial World : Cultural Margins - Francis Barker

Cannibalism and the Colonial World

By: Francis Barker (Editor), Peter Hulme (Editor), Margaret Iversen (Editor)

Paperback | 5 October 1998

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In Cannibalism and the Colonial World, 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.
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'Ambitious, wide-ranging and coherent. This is clearly a major contribution to the study of the European imperial legacy.' Anthony Pagden, Johns Hopkins University 'I doubt it there is another book quite like this one ... fascinating.' Cultural Survival

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