Cannibals  -  Frank Lestringant, Rosemary Morris

the discovery and representation of the cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne

KORTE INHOUD

Frank Lestringant, one of the foremost scholars of European encounters with the Americas, looks at the concept of the cannibal and the powerful images and meanings it conjured for Europeans from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Combining historical and ethnographic data with allegorical and literary concerns, he describes how European voyagers, writers, and missionaries encountered cannibal cultures and represented them in their writings. Lestringant argues that sixteenth-century travelers and wri...
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1997 Uitgever: University Of California Press Vertaler: Rosemary Morris 247 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0520202406 ISBN-13: 9780520202405