Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne by Frank Lestringant, Rosemary Morris

Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne

Frank Lestringant, Rosemary Morris

247 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Frank Lestringant, one of the foremost scholars of European encounters with the Americas, looks at the concept of the cannibal and the powerful images and meanings it conjured for Europeans from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Combining...

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