Edible People

The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh

Christian Siefkes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

392 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-613-9 (ISBN)

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While human cannibalism has attracted considerable notice and controversy, certain aspects of the practice have received scant attention. These include the connection between cannibalism and xenophobia: the capture and consumption of unwanted strangers. Likewise ignored is the connection to slavery: the fact that in some societies slaves and persons captured in slave raids could be, and were, killed and eaten. This book explores these largely forgotten practices and ignored connections while making explicit the links between cannibal acts, imperialist influences and the role of capitalist trading practices. These are highly important for the history of the slave trade and for understanding the colonialist history of Africa.

Christian Siefkes is an independent scholar whose research interests include the history of trade and economic relations, including their darker aspects, as well as the reality of climate change and what is means for the future of humanity.

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Introduction

Chapter 1. A Taxonomy of Cannibal Practices

Chapter 2. Slave Eating in New Zealand

Chapter 3. Slave Eating in the Bismarck Archipelago and Sumatra

Chapter 4. Ivory, Slavery, and Slave Eating in the Congo Basin

Chapter 5. The Roles of Arab-Swahili Merchants and the Congo Free State

Chapter 6. Understanding Congolese Slave Eating

Chapter 7. Commercial and Economic Aspects of Congolese Cannibalism

Chapter 8. Exploitation and Patriarchy in the Congo

Chapter 9. The Jameson Affair

Chapter 10. The Question of European Influences and the Obeyesekere Conjecture

Chapter 11. Foreigner Poaching in New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago

Chapter 12. Foreigner Poaching in Fiji and Central Africa

Chapter 13. The Trade in Human Flesh and in “Edible” Corpses

Chapter 14. Famine and Commercial Cannibalism in China

Chapter 15. Warfare and Culinary Cannibalism in China

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Anthropology of Food & Nutrition
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-613-4 / 1800736134
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-613-9 / 9781800736139
Zustand	Neuware