Dinner with a cannibal : the complete history of mankind's oldest taboo / Carole A. Travis-Henikoff ; foreword by Christy G. Turner II.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781595800305
- ISBN: 1595800301
- Physical Description: 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : Santa Monica Press, c2008.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-323) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Christy G. Turner II -- Introduction -- [pt. 1]. How we got to where we are -- 1. The incredible foods we eat -- 2. Ubiquitous food -- 3. Inner workings -- 4. Feet to meat -- 5. Cannibalism, disease and genetics -- 6. Dinner with a cannibal -- [pt. 2]. As you believe, so shall it be -- 7. Religious acts -- 8. Murder and medicine -- 9. Mesoamerica -- 10. The lost culture of the Wari -- 11. Through a distant window -- 12. Infanticide -- 13. Skeletons in our closets -- [pt. 3]. Cannibalism : past and present -- 14. Man the warrior -- 15. Keep the river on your right -- 16. Coming to the Americas -- 17. Politics and the color red -- 18. Africa : then and now -- [pt. 4]. Finale : Looking back to the present -- 19. It's a wrap - film at eleven -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Subject: | Cannibalism. Taboo. |
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Kirtland Community College Library | GN 409 .T73 2008 | 30537686 | General Collection | Available | - |
Dinner with a Cannibal : The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo
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Dinner with a Cannibal : The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo
Presenting the history of cannibalism in concert with human evolution, Dinner with a Cannibal takes its readers on an astonishing trip around the world and through history, examining its subject from every angle in order to paint the incredible, multifaceted panoply that is the reality of cannibalism. At the heart of Carole A. Travis-Henikoff's book is the question of how cannibalism began with the human species and how it has become an unspeakable taboo today. At a time when science is being battered by religions and failing teaching methods, Dinner with a Cannibal presents slices of multiple sciences in a readable, understandable form nested within a wealth of data. With history, paleoanthropology, science, gore, sex, murder, war, culinary tidbits, medical facts, and anthropology filling its pages, Dinner with a Cannibal presents both the light and dark side of the human story; the story of how we came to be all the things we are today.