The Man-Eating Myth : Anthropology and Anthropophagy: Anthropology and AnthropophagyOxford University Press, USA, Apr 26, 1979 - 220 pages |
Contents
The Classic ManEaters | 41 |
The Prehistoric World of Anthropophagy | 117 |
The Mythical World of Anthropology | 163 |
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accept accused actually African cannibalism Amahuaca Amba Androphagi animals anthro anthropologists anthropophagy appearance Arawak assumed assumption Azande Aztec cannibalism Aztec culture balism behavior belief Bernardino de Sahagún bones cannibal notion cannibalistic Caribs civilization claim colleagues colonial Columbus concludes Conquest Conquistador considered contemporary Cortés custom discipline disease Durán eaten eating human flesh ethnographic European event evidence for cannibalism existence fact failed Florentine Codex Fore further Gajdusek Guinea Hans Staden Harner historical Human Leopards human sacrifice hypothesis incest Indians indication inhabitants instance intellectual interpretation involved islands kuru literature man-eaters material mention mind missionaries moral myth natives nature neighbors nibalism possible prehistoric problem protein reader reason referred reports result ritual Sahagún savage scientific Sierra Leone similar Simon of Trent sixteenth century social anthropology societies Spaniards Spanish Staden suggests supernatural symbolic Ta'unga thought tion Tongo Players Tupinamba victim western witches women Zigas