Insatiable Appetites: Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World

(Part of the Early American Places Series)

by Kelly Watson and Watson

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A comparative history of cross-cultural encounters and the critical role of cannibalism in the early modern period

Cannibalism, 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 who encountered Native Americans described them as cannibals as a matter of course, and they wrote extensively about the lurid cannibal...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1479877654

ISBN13:9781479877652

Release Date:April 2017

Publisher:New York University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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