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

by Kelly Watson and Watson

Book Overview

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"