Author : Marvin Harris
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Culture
ISBN : 0002161206
Cannibals and Kings
Marvin Harris
Of Cannibals And Kings
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Cannibals and Kings
Marvin Harris
Author : Marvin Harris
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Science
ISBN : NWU:35556018122390
Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris Pdf
Cannibals and Kings
Marvin Harris
Author : Marvin Harris
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307801234
Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris Pdf
In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted for the evolution of biological forms: to show how cultures adopt their characteristic forms in response to changing ecological modes. "[A] magisterial interpretation of the rise and fall of human cultures and societies." -- Robert Lekachman, Washington Post Book World "Its persuasive arguments asserting the primacy of cultural rather than genetic or psychological factors in human life deserve the widest possible audience." -- Gloria Levitas The New Leader "[An] original and...urgent theory about the nature of man and at the reason that human cultures take so many diverse shapes." -- The New Yorker "Lively and controversial." -- I. Bernard Cohen, front page, The New York Times Book Review
Of Cannibals and Kings
Neil L. Whitehead
Author : Neil L. Whitehead
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271037998
Of Cannibals and Kings by Neil L. Whitehead Pdf
"Translations of the earliest accounts, from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, of the native peoples of the Americas, including Columbus's descriptions of his first voyage. Documents the emergence of a primal anthropology and how Spanish ethnological classifications were integral to colonial discovery, occupation, and conquest"--Provided by publisher.
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
Marvin Harris
Author : Marvin Harris
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307801227
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches by Marvin Harris Pdf
One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do. Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe in witches? Marvin Harris answers these and other perplexing questions about human behavior, showing that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from identifiable and intelligble sources.
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires
Richard Sugg
Author : Richard Sugg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317354888
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires by Richard Sugg Pdf
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an attempt to heal themselves of epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression. In this comprehensive and accessible text, Richard Sugg shows that, far from being a medieval therapy, corpse medicine was at its height during the social and scientific revolutions of early-modern Britain, surviving well into the eighteenth century and, amongst the poor, lingering stubbornly on into the time of Queen Victoria. Ranging from the execution scaffolds of Germany and Scandinavia, through the courts and laboratories of Italy, France and Britain, to the battlefields of Holland and Ireland, and on to the tribal man-eating of the Americas, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires argues that the real cannibals were in fact the Europeans. Picking our way through the bloodstained shadows of this remarkable secret history, we encounter medicine cut from bodies living and dead, sacks of human fat harvested after a gun battle, gloves made of human skin, and the first mummy to appear on the London stage. Lit by the uncanny glow of a lamp filled with human blood, this second edition includes new material on exo-cannibalism, skull medicine, the blood-drinking of Scandinavian executions, Victorian corpse-stroking, and the magical powers of candles made from human fat. In our quest to understand the strange paradox of routine Christian cannibalism we move from the Catholic vampirism of the Eucharist, through the routine filth and discomfort of early modern bodies, and in to the potent, numinous source of corpse medicine’s ultimate power: the human soul itself. Now accompanied by a companion website with supplementary articles, interviews with the author, related images, summaries of key topics, and a glossary, the second edition of Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires is an essential read for anyone interested in the history of medicine, early modern history, and the darker, hidden past of European Christendom.
Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature
H. Blurton
Author : H. Blurton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137115799
Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature by H. Blurton Pdf
This book reads the surprisingly widespread representations of cannibals and cannibalism in medieval English literature as political metaphors that were central to England's on-going process of articulating cultural and national identity.
Kings of the Wyld
Nicholas Eames
Author : Nicholas Eames
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316362467
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames Pdf
A retired group of legendary mercenaries get the band back together for one last impossible mission in this award-winning debut epic fantasy. "Fantastic, funny, ferocious." -- Sam Sykes Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best, the most feared and renowned crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld. Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk, or a combination of the three. Then an ex-bandmate turns up at Clay's door with a plea for help -- the kind of mission that only the very brave or the very stupid would sign up for. It's time to get the band back together.
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires
Richard Sugg
Author : Richard Sugg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136577369
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires by Richard Sugg Pdf
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, when kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribed, swallowed or wore human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin against epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression. One thing we are rarely taught at school is this: James I refused corpse medicine; Charles II made his own corpse medicine; and Charles I was made into corpse medicine. Ranging from the execution scaffolds of Germany and Scandinavia, through the courts and laboratories of Italy, France and Britain, to the battlefields of Holland and Ireland, and on to the tribal man-eating of the Americas, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires argues that the real cannibals were in fact the Europeans. Medicinal cannibalism utilised the formidable weight of European science, publishing, trade networks and educated theory. For many, it was also an emphatically Christian phenomenon. And, whilst corpse medicine has sometimes been presented as a medieval therapy, it was at its height during the social and scientific revolutions of early-modern Britain. It survived well into the eighteenth century, and amongst the poor it lingered stubbornly on into the time of Queen Victoria. This innovative book brings to life a little known and often disturbing part of human history.
Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England
David B. Goldstein
Author : David B. Goldstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107512719
Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England by David B. Goldstein Pdf
David B. Goldstein argues for a new understanding of Renaissance England from the perspective of communal eating. Rather than focus on traditional models of interiority, choice and consumption, Goldstein demonstrates that eating offered a central paradigm for the ethics of community formation. The book examines how sharing food helps build, demarcate and destroy relationships – between eater and eaten, between self and other, and among different groups. Tracing these eating relations from 1547 to 1680 - through Shakespeare, Milton, religious writers and recipe book authors - Goldstein shows that to think about eating was to engage in complex reflections about the body's role in society. In the process, he radically rethinks the communal importance of the Protestant Eucharist. Combining historicist literary analysis with insights from social science and philosophy, the book's arguments reverberate well beyond the Renaissance. Ultimately, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England forces us to rethink our own relationship to food.
Cannibals All!
George Fitzhugh
Author : George Fitzhugh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Labor
ISBN : MINN:31951001538426E
Cannibals All! by George Fitzhugh Pdf
Southern intellectual George Fitzhugh provides a passionate defense of slavery in this nearly 400-page volume published in 1857. Further developing ideas in his previous work Sociology for the South, Fitzhugh not only defends slavery but attacks the entire liberal tradition. Attacking Adam Smith, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson and others, Fitzhugh argues that free markets are harmful to society by forcing the lower classes into crushing labor and poverty. The answer, Fitzhugh argues, is slavery--not only for blacks, but for whites as well. "Slavery," he writes, "is a form, and the very best form, of socialism."
The King's Assegai
Bertram Mitford
Author : Bertram Mitford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : English fiction
ISBN : NWU:35556039374673
The King's Assegai by Bertram Mitford Pdf
Tales of the Peculiar
Ransom Riggs
Author : Ransom Riggs
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780399538551
Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs Pdf
A companion to the New York Times bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, now a major motion picture directed by Tim Burton. Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. A fork-tongued princess. These are but a few of the truly brilliant stories in Tales of the Peculiar—the collection of fairy tales known to hide information about the peculiar world, including clues to the locations of time loops—first introduced by Ransom Riggs in his #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. Riggs now invites you to share his secrets of peculiar history, with a collection of original stories in this deluxe volume of Tales of the Peculiar, as collected and annotated by Millard Nullings, ward of Miss Peregrine and scholar of all things peculiar. Featuring stunning illustrations from world-renowned woodcut artist Andrew Davidson this compelling and truly peculiar anthology is the perfect gift for not only fans, but for all booklovers. A perfect gift, reminiscent of classic bookmaking, this beautifully packaged volume features full-page woodcut illustrations, gold foil stamping, a ribbon, and removable back sticker. “[These tales] embody gentle, empowering messages: accept yourself and others; celebrate difference and oddity; never lose your sense of wonder.” —Financial Times “With a Victorian style for writing and a capacity for subtle humor, the tales read as cautionary fables, rich with peril and phantasy, and will be enjoyed by teens and adults alike.” —GeekDad.com
Man Corn
Christy G. Turner, II,Jacqueline A. Turner
Author : Christy G. Turner, II,Jacqueline A. Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0874809681
Man Corn by Christy G. Turner, II,Jacqueline A. Turner Pdf
Using detailed osteological analyses and other lines of evidence, this study of prehistoric violence, homicide, and cannibalism explodes the myth that the Anasazi and other Southwest Indians were simple, peaceful farmers.
Dinner with a Cannibal
Carole A Travis-Henikoff
Author : Carole A Travis-Henikoff
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781595809964
Dinner with a Cannibal by Carole A Travis-Henikoff Pdf
Presenting the history of cannibalism in concert with human evolution, Dinner with a Cannibal takes its readers on an astonishing trip around the world and through history, examining its subject from every angle in order to paint the incredible, multifaceted panoply that is the reality of cannibalism. At the heart of Carole A. Travis-Henikoff’s book is the question of how cannibalism began with the human species and how it has become an unspeakable taboo today. At a time when science is being battered by religions and failing teaching methods, Dinner with a Cannibal presents slices of multiple sciences in a readable, understandable form nested within a wealth of data. With history, paleoanthropology, science, gore, sex, murder, war, culinary tidbits, medical facts, and anthropology filling its pages, Dinner with a Cannibal presents both the light and dark side of the human story; the story of how we came to be all the things we are today.