Insatiable Appetites : : Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World / / Kelly L. Watson.
A comparative history of cross-cultural encounters and the critical role of cannibalism in the early modernperiodCannibalism, for medieval and early modern Europeans, was synonymous with savagery. Humans who ate other humans, they believed, were little better than animals. The European colonizers wh...
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| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Places ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 / Inventing Cannibals: Classical and Medieval Traditions
- 2 / Discovering Cannibals: Europeans, Caribs, and Arawaks in the Caribbean
- 3 / Conquering Cannibals: Spaniards, Mayas, and Aztecs in Mexico
- 4 / Converting Cannibals: Jesuits and Iroquois in New France
- 5 / Living with Cannibals: Englishmen and the Wilderness
- 6 / Understanding Cannibals: Conclusions and Questions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author