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monografia Rebiun25356017 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun25356017 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 180818s2018 enk ob 001 0 eng d 9789956550739 9956550736 9956550965 9789956550968 UAM 991008083058604211 EBLCP eng pn EBLCP YDX MERUC NT IDB OCLCF OCLCQ JSTOR OCLCQ UNAV 394.9 23 Eating and being eaten Recurso electrónico] cannibalism as food for thought edited by Francis B. Nyamnjoh Oxford Langaa RPCIG 2018 Oxford Oxford Langaa RPCIG 358 p. 358 p. EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice Cover; Title page; Copyright page; About the Authors; Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1 -- Introduction: Cannibalism as Food for Thought; Introduction; There is more meat to cannibalism than meets the eye; Compassionate Cannibalism; Being Human as Eating and Being Eaten; Humans and Animals as Two Sides of the Same Cannibal Feast; Cannibalism in Camouflage; Contributions to this Volume: an Overview; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; Chapter 2 -- The Violence of Translating People into Cannibals: The Man-Eating Anthropologists; The violence of translating people into cannibals Anthropology, cannibalism and colonial violenceThe problematic notion of cannibalism; The ethnography of cannibalism: representing the other; Ethnography and the violence of making a text from data; Cannibalism: beyond the modern world and towards a new anthropology; Endnotes; References; Chapter 3 -- Incorporated or Cannibalised by Posthuman Others? Sanctions and Witchcraft in Contemporary Zimbabwe; Introduction; The Capture and Cannibalisation of Zimbabwe: on the Imperial Leviathan; Luring and Incorporating 'Delicious' Africa in a Cannibalistic World: Zimbabwe and Sanctions; Conclusion ReferencesChapter 4-'The Body of Christ? Amen': Christianity and the Cannibalisation of the Bamenda Grassfielders (Cameroon) ; Introduction; Eating up Traditional Rulers: the Projection and Delegitimisation Argument; Ex-soldiers or 'Fernando Po Repartees' and the Licence to Consume Grassfielders; The Ex-servicemen and Cannibalism; Consuming and being Consumed: 'Love' and 'Sex' in the Church Compounds; Domestication of Western Christianity by the Bamenda Grassfielders; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; Chapter 5-Researching Cannibalising Obligations in Post-apartheid South Africa IntroductionBackground on Black Middle Class in South Africa; Cannibalising Black Middle Class; Cannibalising Obligations; Media on Cannibalising Black Tax; Citizenship and Cannibalism; Cannibalising Systemic Obligations; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; Chapter 6 -- Lehu la gago le ya mphidisha. 'Your death nourishes me'; The investment of 'life'; The saga of human ashes; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; Chapter 7 -- Rainbow Nation of the Flesh; The Kitchen; Appetisers; Main Course; Dessert; Gluttony; In Lieu of a Conclusion: After Dinner Mint, Coffee & Brandy; References Chapter 8 -- My African Heart: The Obscure Gourmandise of an Enlightened ManIntroduction; The Pale Tale of Extraction; The Path of the Dying Heart; Conclusion; Endnotes; References; Chapter 9 -- Consumerisation of cannibalism in contemporary Japanese society; Introduction; Exploiting the suicidal; Fantasising reality and realising the fantasy; Fetish to rawness; Consumerisation of cannibalism; Concluding remarks; Endnotes; References; INDEX; Back cover Forma de acceso: World Wide Web Nyamnjoh, Francis B. 1961-)