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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Herrmann, Rachel B., editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Series:

Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)

Food and foodways

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atlantic Ocean Region--Social conditions.

Atlantic Ocean Region.

Cannibalism--Atlantic Ocean Region.

Cannibalism.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

x, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas, 2019.

Summary:

Long before the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, colony and its Starving Time of 1609-1610 - one of the most famous cannibalism narratives in North American colonial history - cannibalism played an important role in shaping the human relationship to food, hunger, and moral outrage. Why did colonial invaders go out of their way to accuse women of cannibalism? What challenges did Spaniards face in trying to explain Eucharist rites to Native peoples? What roles did preconceived notions about non-Europeans play in inflating accounts of cannibalism in Christopher Columbus's reports as they moved through Italian merchant circles? Asking questions such as these and exploring what it meant to accuse someone of eating people as well as how cannibalism rumors facilitated slavery and the rise of empires, To feast on us as their prey posits that it is impossible to separate histories of cannibalism from the role food and hunger have played in the colonization efforts that shaped our modern world.

Contents:

Introduction: "cannibalism and..."

Rituals of consumption: cannibalism and Native American oral traditions in southeastern North America

First reports of new world cannibalism in the Italian mercantile and diplomatic correspondence

Sex and cannibalism: the politics of carnal relations between European and American "anthropophagites" in the Caribbean and and Mexico

Spaniards, cannibals, and the Eucharist in the New World

"And greedily devoured them": the cannibalism discours and the creation of a British Atlantic world, 1536-1612

Imperial appetites: cannibalism and early modern theatre

Retelling the legend of Sawney Bean: cannibalism in eighteenth-century England

Honor eating: Frank Lestringant, Michel de Montaigne, and the physics of symbolic exchange

Conspicuous consumptions in Atlantic Africa: Andrew Battell's fearsome tales of hunger, cannibalism, and survival

"The black people were not good to eat": cannibalism, cooperation, and hunger at sea

Beyond Jamestown.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: To feast on us as their prey.

ISBN:

9781682260814

168226081X

9781682260821

1682260828

OCLC:

1043145375

Publisher Number:

99981827999