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Eating and being eaten : cannibalism as food for thought / edited by Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Oxford : Langaa RPCIG [2018], 2018

1 Online-Ressource (358 p)

Englisch

Description based upon print version of record. - Includes bibliographical references and index -- 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

Erscheint auch als: Nyamnjoh, B : Eating and Being Eaten : Cannibalism As Food for Thought. - Oxford : Langaa RPCIG,c2018 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-9956-550-73-9 (electronic bk.); 9956-550-73-6 (electronic bk.)

9956-550-96-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 9956-550-73-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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GN409*

394.9     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SCI 100000 ; bisacsh: SOC 002010 ; bisacsh: SCI 008000 ; bisacsh: SCI 100000 ; bisacsh: SCI 008000 ; bisacsh: SOC 002010

LOC-SH: Cannibalism ; Consumption (Economics)

SCIENCE ; Life Sciences ; Biology ; SCIENCE ; Natural History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural & Social ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Cannibalism ; Consumption (Economics)

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

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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