To Feast on Us as Their Prey e-bog
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Winner, 2020 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award, Edited VolumeLong 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 o...
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238,03 DKK
Forlag
University of Arkansas Press
Udgivet
11 februar 2019
Længde
250 sider
Genrer
HB
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781610756563
Winner, 2020 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award, Edited VolumeLong 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.