Title:
To feast on us as their prey : cannibalism and the early modern Atlantic / edited by Rachel B. Herrmann.
Author:
Herrmann, Rachel B., editor.
Publication Information:
Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas, 2019.
©2019
Call Number:
GN409 .T6 2019
Abstract:
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.
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ISBN:
9781682260814
9781682260821
9781610756563
Series:
Food and foodways
Food and foodways (Fayetteville, Ark.)
Physical Description:
x, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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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.
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