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To feast on us as their prey : cannibalism and the early modern Atlantic / edited by Rachel B. Herrmann.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Herrmann, Rachel B., author.
Contributor:
JSTOR (Online Service)
Series:
Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)
Food and foodways
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cannibalism--Atlantic Ocean Region.
Cannibalism.
Social conditions.
Atlantic Ocean Region--Social conditions.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 282 pages).
polychrome
Place of Publication:
Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2019.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Intro; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. "Cannibalism and . . ." / Rachel B. Herrmann; Chapter 1. Rituals of Consumption: Cannibalism and Native American Oral Traditions in Southeastern North America / Gregory D. Smithers; Chapter 2. First Reports of New World Cannibalism in the Italian Mercantile and Diplomatic Correspondence / Elena Daniele; Chapter 3. Sex and Cannibalism: The Politics of Carnal Relations between Europeans and American ""Anthropophagites"" in the Caribbean and Mexico / Kelly L. Watson
Chapter 4. Spaniards, Cannibals, and the Eucharist in the New World / Rebecca EarleChapter 5. "And Greedily Devoured Them": The Cannibalism Discourse and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1536-1612 / Jessica S. Hower; Chapter 6. Imperial Appetites: Cannibalism and Early Modern Theatre / Matt Williamson; Chapter 7. Retelling the Legend of Sawney Bean: Cannibalism in Eighteenth-Century England / Julie Gammon; Chapter 8. Honor Eating: Frank Lestringant, Michel de Montaigne, and the Physics of Symbolic Exchange / Robert Appelbaum
Chapter 9. Conspicuous Consumptions in Atlantic Africa: Andrew Battell's Fearsome Tales of Hunger, Cannibalism, and Survival / Jared StallerChapter 10 "The Black People Were Not Good to Eat": Cannibalism, Cooperation, and Hunger at Sea / Rachel B. Herrmann; Conclusion. Beyond Jamestown / Rachel B. Herrmann; Notes; Contributors; Index
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 06, 2019).
ISBN:
9781610756563
1610756568
Publisher Number:
40028876164
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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