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Title:

Cannibalism and the colonial world / edited by Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

xiv, 309 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Cannibalism.
Cannibalism in literature.

Other Authors:

Barker, Francis, 1952-
Hulme, Peter.
Iversen, Margaret.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-303) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: the cannibal scene / Peter Hulme -- Rethinking anthropophagy / William Arens -- Cannibal feasts in nineteenth-century Fiji: seamen's yarns and the ethnographic imagination / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Brazilian anthropophagy revisited / Sérgio Luiz Prado Bellei -- Lapses in taste: 'cannibal-tropicalist' cinema and the Brazilian aesthetic of underdevelopment / Luís Madureira -- Ghost stories, bone flutes, cannibal countermemory / Graham Huggan -- Cronos and the political economy of vampirism: notes on a historical constellation / John Kraniauskas -- Fee fie fo fum: the child in the jaws of the story / Marina Warner -- Cannibalism qua capitalism: the metaphorics of accumulation in Marx, Conrad, Shakespeare and Marlowe / Jerry Phillips -- Consumerism, or the cultural logic of late cannibalism / Crystal Bartolovich -- The function of cannibalism at the present time / Maggie Kilgour.

Series:

Cultural margins ; [5]

ISBN:

9780521629089 (pbk.)
052162908X (pbk.)
9780521621182 (hc)
0521621186 (hc)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)37820097
(OCoLC)40230281

LCCN:

97044368

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)