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Cannibalism and the Colonial World
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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.

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In this 1998 book, an international team from a variety of disciplines discusses the historical and cultural significance of cannibalism.

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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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