The Cannibals

Author : Jack D. Forbes
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583229828

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Columbus and Other Cannibals by Jack D. Forbes Pdf

Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America’s most influential activists for decades. Frighteningly, his radical critique of the modern "civilized" lifestyle is more relevant now than ever before. Identifying the Western compulsion to consume the earth as a sickness, Forbes writes: "Brutality knows no boundaries. Greed knows no limits. Perversion knows no borders. . . . These characteristics all push towards an extreme, always moving forward once the initial infection sets in. . . . This is the disease of the consuming of other creatures’ lives and possessions. I call it cannibalism." This updated edition includes a new chapter by the author.

Author : Sen. Arlen Specter,Charles Robbins
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429952903

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Life Among the Cannibals by Sen. Arlen Specter,Charles Robbins Pdf

A revealing memoir of how Washington is changing---and not for the better During a storied thirty-year career in the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter rose to Judiciary Committee chairman, saved and defeated Supreme Court nominees, championed NIH funding, wrote watershed crime laws, always staying defiantly independent, "The Contrarian," as Time magazine billed him in a package of the nation's ten-best Senators. It all ended with one vote, for President Obama's stimulus, when Specter broke with Republicans to provide the margin of victory to prevent another Depression. Shunned by the GOP faithful, Specter changed parties, giving Democrats a sixty-vote supermajority and throwing Washington into a tailspin. He kept charging, taking the first bursts of Tea Party fire at public meetings on Obama's health care--reform plan. Undaunted, Specter cast the key vote for the health plan. In Life Among the Cannibals, Specter candidly describes the battles that led to his party switch, his tough transition, the unexpected struggles and duplicity that he faced, and his tumultuous campaign and eventual defeat in the 2010 Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Taking us behind the scenes in the Capitol, the White House, and on the campaign trail, he shows how the rise of extremists---in both parties---has displaced tolerance with purity tests, purging centrists, and precluding moderate, bipartisan consensus.

Author : Melanie Hobson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143196396

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Summer Cannibals by Melanie Hobson Pdf

A bold and gripping literary debut about three very different sisters who return to their family home to face imminent tragedy and their tumultuous pasts. Summoned to their magnificent family home on the shores of Lake Ontario--a paradisiacal mansion perched on an escarpment above the city--three adult sisters, George, Jax, and Pippa, come together in what seems like an act of family solidarity. Pregnant and unwell, the youngest, Pippa, has left her husband and four young children in New Zealand and returned home to heal. But home to this family means secrets, desire, and vengeance--and feasting on the sexual appetites and weaknesses of others. Each daughter has her own particular taste and overlaying everything are their parents, with unquenchable desires and cravings of their own. As the affluent family endures four intense days in one another's company, old fissures reappear. When long-buried truths finally come to light, the sisters and their parents must face the unthinkable consequences of their actions. Summer Cannibals is a riveting, psychological story of lust, betrayal, and family from a dazzling new voice in Canadian fiction.

Author : Paul Raffaele
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061983276

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Among the Cannibals by Paul Raffaele Pdf

It's the stuff of nightmares, the dark inspiration for literature and film. But astonishingly, cannibalism does exist, and in Among the Cannibals travel writer Paul Raffaele journeys to the far corners of the globe to discover participants in this mysterious and disturbing practice. From an obscure New Guinea river village, where Raffaele went in search of one of the last practicing cannibal cultures on Earth; to India, where the Aghori sect still ritualistically eat their dead; to North America, where evidence exists that the Aztecs ate sacrificed victims; to Tonga, where the descendants of fierce warriors still remember how their predecessors preyed upon their foes; and to Uganda, where the unfortunate victims of the Lord's Resistance Army struggle to reenter a society from which they have been violently torn, Raffaele brings this baffling cultural ritual to light in a combination of Indiana Jones-type adventure and gonzo journalism. Illustrated with photographs Raffaele took during his travels, Among the Cannibals is a gripping look at some of the more unsavory aspects of human civilization, guaranteed to satisfy every reader's morbid curiosity.

Author : Shalom Auslander
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529052077

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Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander Pdf

SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 ‘Outrageous satire . . . extremely funny, weirdly touching’ – Guardian ‘A work of genius’ – Scotsman ‘Close-to-the-knuckle farce with a big beating heart’ – Daily Mail This is the story of an unusual family. Though they are nothing like yours, you will recognize them. They are the last Cannibal-Americans. And they have a problem. When their mother dies, twelve children gather to dispose of the body in the traditional manner . . . by eating it. But can they follow the ancient rituals of consumption? Is their unique cultural heritage worth preserving if it's this gross? And what about dietary requirements - one of them is vegan. Surely it can't be this hard to do the right thing? Mother for Dinner is a dark comedy about modern life and its many difficulties.

Author : Wright Morris
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496202635

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Love Among the Cannibals by Wright Morris Pdf

Speaking of this 1957 novel, the author has said it ended his obsession with the reconstruction of the immediate past and moved him into the contemporary scene. The narrator, Earl Horter, is a lyric writer who is in Hollywood with Mac, his partner, to write a musical. With two girls they have picked up and gone to Acapulco.

Author : Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231541268

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We Are All Cannibals by Claude Lévi-Strauss Pdf

On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own custom barbarism," said Montaigne. In these essays, Claude Lévi-Strauss shows us behavior that is bizarre, shocking, and even revolting to outsiders but consistent with a people's culture and context. These essays relate meat eating to cannibalism, female circumcision to medically assisted reproduction, and mythic thought to scientific thought. They explore practices of incest and patriarchy, nature worship versus man-made material obsessions, the perceived threat of art in various cultures, and the innovations and limitations of secular thought. Lévi-Strauss measures the short distance between "complex" and "primitive" societies and finds a shared madness in the ways we enact myth, ritual, and custom. Yet he also locates a pure and persistent ethics that connects the center of Western civilization to far-flung societies and forces a reckoning with outmoded ideas of morality and reason.

Author : Norman Lock
Publisher : Bellevue Literary Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942658474

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Feast Day of the Cannibals by Norman Lock Pdf

“[Norman Lock’s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.” —NPR In the sixth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, Shelby Ross, a merchant ruined by the depression of 1873–79, is hired as a New York City Custom House appraiser under inspector Herman Melville, the embittered, forgotten author of Moby-Dick. On the docks, Ross befriends a genial young man and makes an enemy of a despicable one, who attempts to destroy them by insinuating that Ross and the young man share an unnatural affection. Ross narrates his story to his childhood friend Washington Roebling, chief engineer of the soon-to-be-completed Brooklyn Bridge. As he is harried toward a fate reminiscent of Ahab’s, he encounters Ulysses S. Grant, dying in a brownstone on the Upper East Side; Samuel Clemens, who will publish Grant’s Memoirs; and Thomas Edison, at the dawn of the electrification of the city. Feast Day of the Cannibals charts the harrowing journey of a tormented heart during America’s transformative age. Norman Lock is the award-winning author of novels, short fiction, and poetry, as well as stage, radio, and screenplays. He lives in Aberdeen, New Jersey, where he is at work on the next books of The American Novels series.

Author : Mary Davis Wallis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Fiji
ISBN : UCAL:B3967048

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Life in Feejee, Or, Five Years Among the Cannibals by Mary Davis Wallis Pdf

Author : Laurie Robertson-Lorant
Publisher : Spinner Publications
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 093202792X

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The Man Who Lived Among the Cannibals by Laurie Robertson-Lorant Pdf

A collection of 60 poems expressing Herman Melville's perspective about his life aboard a whaleship and among natives in the Marqueses Islands.

Author : Robinson CRUSOE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Castaways
ISBN : BL:A0017455583

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The Modern Crusoe; Or, the King of the Cannibals of the Marquesas Islands by Robinson CRUSOE Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022529098

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The Cannibals' Progress: Or, the Dreadful Horrors of French Invasion, as Displayed by the Republican Officers and Soldiers ... Towards the Innocent Inhabitants of Germany. [Translated by Anthony Aufrere. With an “Introductory Address. To the Subjects of the British Empire,” by William Cobbett.] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Bausch
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061882081

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Hello to the Cannibals by Richard Bausch Pdf

At first, all Lily Austin knows about 19th–century explorer Mary Kingsley is that, 100 years before, she was the first white woman to venture into the heart of Africa. But as Lily begins reading about Mary Kingsley, she becomes more and more fascinated – and discovers in Mary a kindred spirit. In her own life, Lily feels trapped – on the one hand, she craves family and intimate connection; on the other hand, she has no healthy or satisfying role models. Consequently, as she nears graduation from the University of Virginia, she finds herself uncertain about what to do with her life. As she researches Mary's life – she has begun writing a play about her – Lily comes to witness Mary's incredible bravery and startling originality, qualities that prove inspirational to Lily, whose own bravery is required as she attempts to navigate dysfunctional and destructive relationships with her young husband, her extended family – and a legacy of abuse dating back to her childhood.

Author : Alain Corbin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0674939018

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The Village of Cannibals by Alain Corbin Pdf

In August 1870 in the French village of Hautefaye, a young nobleman, falsely accused of shouting republican slogans, was tortured for hours by a mob of peasants who later burned him alive. This book is a fascinating inquiry into the social and political ingredients of an alchemy that transformed ordinary people into brutal executioners.

Author : Lewis F. Petrinovich
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0202369501

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The Cannibal Within by Lewis F. Petrinovich Pdf

The Cannibal Within offers an evolutionary account of the propensity of human beings, in extreme circumstances to eat other human beings, despite the strong Western taboo against such practices. What sets this volume apart from the large body of literature on cannibalism, both popular and anthropological, is the underlying premise: cannibalism as an alternative to starvation is tacitly condoned by the same biological morality that would condemn cannibalism of other sorts in non-threatening situations. Deep as the taboos may be, the survival instinct runs even deeper. The title of the book reflects the author's belief that cannibalism is not a pathology that erupts in psychotic individuals, but is a universal adaptive strategy that is evolutionarily sound. The cannibal is within all of us, and cannibals are within all cultures, should the circumstances demand cannibalism's appearance and usage. Petrinovich's work is rich in historical detail, and rises to a level of theoretical sophistication in addressing a subject too often dealt with in sensationalist terms. The major instances in which survival cannibalism has occurred convinced the author that there is a consistent pattern and a uniform regularity of order in which different kinds of individuals are consumed. In considering who eats whom, when, and under what circumstances, this regularity appears, and it is consistent with what would be expected on the basis of evolutionary or Darwinian theory. In short, he concludes that starvation cannibalism is not a manifestation of the chaotic, psychotic behavior of individuals who are driven to madness, but reveals underlying characteristics of evolved human beings. Lewis Petrinovich is professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology of the University of California, Riverside and is currently a resident of Berkeley, California.