An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Alistair Ian Blyth, Cătălin Avramescu

An Intellectual History of Cannibalism

Alistair Ian Blyth, Cătălin Avramescu

350 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced

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The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine...

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