With fava beans and a good chianti
For a long time, the field (of cannibalism studies) was dominated by a curious variety of négationnisme, most famously spelled out by William Arens in his 1980 book The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy. According to Arens, cannibalism is nothing more than a projection of fear-induced fantasies upon unknown others, and in the past 500 years this projection has served as part of the ideological soundtrack to the European conquest of the rest of the world. As the incident on the Greyhound reminds us, however, sometimes people really do eat people…
A review of Cătălin Avramescu’s An Intellectual History of Cannibalism, in n+1.
How does Joey Gosiengfiao’s Temptation Island fit into this discussion?
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