The Anthropology of Cannibalism
Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
Published: October 30, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780897895965
Subjects: Anthropology; Customs; Folklore; Methodology; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Customs & Traditions; Folklore & Mythology; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Cannibalism; Anthropology - General; Ethnology
First sentence: Michel de Montaigne's Renaissance essai "Of Cannibals" has long been regarded within anthropology as a locus classicus of how in the representation of otherness, and most particularly the "exotic," we need to decenter ourselves from our own culturally shaped morality.