Our Cannibals, Ourselves
by Priscilla L. Walton
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"Our Cannibals, Ourselves is an interdisciplinary study of cannibalism in contemporary culture. It demonstrates how what we take for today's mainstream culture is imaginatively and historically rooted in very powerful processes of the encounter between our own and different, often "threatening," cultures from around the world. Walton shows that the taboo on cannibalism is not reinforced solely out of fear of cannibals themselves; instead, cannibalism is evoked in order to use fear for other purposes, including the sale of fear entertainment."
"Ranging from literature to popular journalism, film, television, and discourses on disease, Our Cannibals, Ourselves provides an all-encompassing, insightful meditation on what happens to popular culture when it goes global."--Jacket.
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Our Cannibals, Ourselves
September 8, 2004, University of Illinois Press
Hardcover
in English
0252029259 9780252029257
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