FOOD AND CULTURE

Moche drawing of ritual involving sex and cannibalism (Brian Billman, Moche Iconography)

Cannibalism

Controversial -- click for detailsAbbink J (2008) "Cannibalism'' in Southern Ethiopia. An Exploratory Case Study of Me'en Discourse. Anthropos 103:3 (12)

Abler T (1980) Iroquois Cannibalism: Fact Not Fiction. Ethnohistory 27:309-316. [cannibalism; North American Indian; Iroquois]

Arens W (1979) The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy. [cannibalism]

Barker F, Hulme P, Iversen M (1998) Cannibalism and the Colonial World. Cambridge University Press. [cannibalism]

Binyan L (1993) An Unnatural Disaster. New York Review of Books XI:3-6. [cannibalism; famine; East Asia; China; cultural revolution]

Bishop C (1975) Northern Algonkian Cannibalism and Windigo Psychosis. In Psychological Anthropology, ed. T Williams. [famine; cannibalism; windigo; North American Indians; Algonkian]

Boehrer M (2004) The Parrot Eaters: Psittacophagy in the Renaissance and Beyond. Gastronomica 4:46-59. [foodstuffs; history; taboo; cannibalism]

Recommended -- click for detailsBoucher PP (1992) Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs. [history; cannibalism; Caribbean]

Clastres P (1998) Cannibals. The Sciences 38. [cannibalism; meaning; South America; Paraguay; Ache]

Conklin BA (2001) Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society. University of Texas. [cannibalism; South America; Amazon; Wari]

Dornstreich M, Morren GEB (1974) Does New Guinea Cannibalism Have Nutritional Value? Human Ecology 2:1-12. [cannibalism; nutritional value; Oceania; New Guinea]

Recommended -- click for detailsElgar MA, Crespi BJ (1992) Cannibalism: Ecology and Evolution among Diverse Taxa. Oxford University Press. [animal behavior; cannibalism; ecology; human evolution]

Garn SM (1979) The Noneconomic Nature of Eating People. American Anthropologist 81:903-. [cannibalism]

Goldman L (1999) The Anthropology of Cannibalism. Praeger. [cannibalism; symbolic meanings; myth]

Harner M (1977) The Ecological Basis for Aztec Sacrifice. American Ethnologist 4:117-135. [cannibalism; prehistory; history; ecology; Mexico; Aztec]

Harris M (1977) Cannibals and Kings. [feasts; communion; sacrifice]

Harris M (1985) The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture. Simon and Schuster. [taboos; materialist theory; ecology; cannibalism; meat eating]

Harris M (1998) Good to Eat. Waveland. [materialist theory; taboos; ecology; food system; meat eating; cannibalism]

Lestringant F (1997) Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne. University of California Press. [cannibalism as symbol; Europe]

About the disourse -- click for detailsLindenbaum S (2004) Thinking About Cannibalism. Annual Review of Anthropology 33:475-498. [anthropological theory; representations of cannibalism]

Myers RA (1984) Island Carib Cannibalism. Niewe West-indische Gids 158:147-184. [cannibalism; Caribbean; Island Carib]

Obeyesekere G (2005) Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas University of California Press. [discourse; meaning; Recommended -- click for detailsOceania; Polynesia]

Ortiz de Montellano B (1990) Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition. [prehistory; history; cannibalism; Mexico; Aztec]

Petrinovich L (2000) The Cannibal Within. Aldine de Gruyter. [cannibalism; human psychology; human evolution; case materials]

Sahlins M (1978) Culture as Protein and Profit. The New York Review of Books 25:45-53-. [taboo; symbolism; prehistory; cannibalism; Mexico; Aztec]

Sanday P (1986) Devine Hunger. Cambridge University Press. [cannibalism]

Shankman P (1969) Le Roti Et Le Bouilli: Levi-Strauss's Theory of Cannibalism. American Anthropologist 71:54-69. [structural theory; cannibalism]

Tannahill R (1996) Flesh and Blood: A History of the Cannibal Complex. Little, Brown and Company. [cannibalism; history; religion and meaning]

Waterson R (2007) Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas. Asian Journal of Social Science 35:383-386.

White TD (1992) Prehistoric Cannibalism in Mancos 5mtumr-2345. Princeton University Press. [prehistory; cannibalism]

Winkelman M (1998) Aztec Human Sacrifice: Cross-Cultural Assessments of the Ecological Hypothesis. Ethnology 37:285-. [cannibalism; North America; Mexico; prehistoric; Aztec]

Yue G (1999) The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China. Duke University Press. [food in literature; cannibalism; East Asia; China]

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