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It existed until recently in parts of West and Central Africa, Sumatra, Melanesia, and Polynesia; among various Indian tribes of North and South America; and among the aborigines of Australia and the Maoris of New Zealand. The reasons for cannibalism have varied. Sometimes there was simply ...
Cannibalism disappeared rapidly in Papua New Guinea in the 1960s following contact with missionaries and colonial officers who tended to abhor the practice. However, many of the cosmological perspectives in terms of which cannibalism made sense locally have persisted in mortuary rituals, which are now...
South America, New Zealand,North America, Australia, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, New Guinea, India, Sumatra, and Fiji, usually in rituals connected to tribal warfare. Fiji was once known as the 'Cannibal Isles'. Evidence of cannibalism has been found in the Chaco Canyon ruins of the Anas...
From 1500s Brazil to Colonial America and early Soviet Union, people have been partaking in the illicit – and illegal – act of cannibalism for surprising reasons. Want more terrifying tales? Sign up forThe Lineup’snewsletter, and get our most chilling investigations delivered straight to your...
Sixteenth-century depictions of cannibalism in the Caribbean, South America, and Australasia comprise the main body of my research, supplemented by canonical works such as Thodore Gricaults The Raft of the Medusa. 展开 年份: 2015 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 ...
阿尔瓦·努涅斯·卡韦萨·德·巴卡,西班牙探险家,船难。Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca along with other Spanish conquistadors committed cannibalism in the aftermath of a shipwreck. 17th–19th centuries 1600s 詹姆斯镇 (维吉尼亚州),饥荒。In colonial Jamestown, colonists resorted to cannibalism during a ...
In cannibalism’s pictorial fragmentation in Jan van der Straet’s “Amerigo Vespucci discovering America” from 1580, Schreffler sees a larger dismantling of the allegory of America. See Michael J. Schreffler, “Vespucci Rediscovers America: The Pictorial Rhetoric of Cannibalism in Early Modern ...