{"product_id":"cannibals-9780745616971","title":"Cannibals","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work provides an account of the existence of New World cannibalism and the images it conjured up for Europeans from the Renaissance to the 19th century. It describes the symbolic uses of cannibalism by authors, political theorists and theologians throughout the period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Frank Lestringant's \u003ci\u003eCannibals\u003c\/i\u003e is a magisterial, wide-ranging, and wonderfully readable exploration of one of the great Western obsessions. With a blend of horror, astonishment, and half-suppressed admiration, European travellers, philosophers, theologians, missionaries and artists have argued for centuries about the significance of cannibalism. Lestringant's extraordinary erudition enables him to map an immensely complex territory. His book is a feast!\" \u003ci\u003eProfessor Stephen Greenblatt\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating account of European cannibalism.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Bookseller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a learned and highly original book. Its virtues lie in its details, in the dazzling series of connections it makes between different aspects of cultural history - literary, theological, economic and artistic. Dare one say, in the words of the Prayer Book, that there is much here to \"read, learn, and inwardly digest\"?\" \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \"Excellent ... It takes a freshly informed look at the question of the American Indian, mainly through French rather than Spanish or British witnesses with whom Anglo-American scholars are more familiar.\" \u003ci\u003eClaude Rawson, The Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: To Meet a Cannibal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: From Dog-heads to Man-eaters:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Birth of the Cannibal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Cannibal \u003ci\u003eá la mode.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Cannibal Comes to France.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Brazil, Land of Cannibals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: In Search of the Honourable Cannibal:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The First Ethnographer of the Tupinamba Indians.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Jean de Léry, or the Cannibal Obsession.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Melancholy Cannibal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Spitting Cannibal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Cannibals by Constraint:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Cardano, or the Rule of Necessity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Brébeuf and Robinson: The Missionary and the Colonist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Enlightenment Cannibal: from Bougainville to Voltaire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Cruel Nature: De Pauw and Sade.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Cannibalism and Colonialism: Jules Verne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: The Return of the Cannibal: Swift, Flaubert and the \u003ci\u003eMedusa.\u003c\/i\u003e Appendix I: The Cannibal Speaks: From Montaigne to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix II: The Cannibal in Canada: Chateaubriand Reads Montaigne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767972495703,"sku":"9780745616971","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745616971.jpg?v=1758715745","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cannibals-9780745616971","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}