who corresponded with many of the survivors over a 40-year period, documented many recollections that it occurred. Some correspondents were not forthcoming, approaching their participation with shame, but others eventually spoke about it freely. McGlashan in his 1879 book History of the Donner Party...
This common motif in cultural history indicates that cannibalism often symbolizes "others" that are less than fully human in some way. The imputation of anthropophagy draws a boundary between "us" and "them," the civilized and uncivilized, in a manner that depicts humans as emerging from a ...
Pre-history Some anthropologists, such as Tim White, suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies prior to the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period. This theory is based on the large amount of "butchered human" bones found in Neanderthal and other Lower/Middle Paleolithic sites. C...
A new chapter in the history of kuru and cannibalism began in 1996 when an interdisciplinary team of investigators composed of neurologists and an anthropologist, later known as the MRC Prion Unit, began to study the disease. Their studies were informed by Gajdusek’s research, and by Stanley ...
Shamash's chapter studies indigenous film productions in Brazil, particularly a documentary that portrays an all-women festival of the Kuikuro tribe, raising issues of cultural and environmental preservation. Shamash meditates on the utopian potential of the film medium as a performance of self-...
So what has archaeology revealed about cannibalism among prehistoric societies? And if cannibalism does seem to have been practised among certain groups, then why? Appalachian State University’s Dr Marc Kissel dialled in from North Carolina to talk us through several cases of potential cannibalism ...
( 1990 ) Cannibalism in a female badger ( Meles meles ): infanticide or predation ? Journal of Zoology , 221 , 314 315 .Lüps, P., and T. J. Roper. 1990. Cannibalism in a female badger ( Meles meles ): infanticide or predation? Journal of Zoology (London) 221 : 314–315.Lu¨ ...
Herodotus coined the termanthropophagy(man eating man) in the fifth century BCE, but the term cannibalism was created much later by explorer Christopher Columbus. When Christopher Columbus and other Europeans encountered the Cariba people of the Lesser Antilles, the indigenous people were depicted as...
Add in the fact that we’re a large university with almost thirty thousand students, where students from high schools from all over the US come to study. Something they have in common is that in those students high school history classes, they were taught that slavery was a terrible ...
"That it is unlikely to have been a one-off event makes it even more important that its story is told," Schulting said, according to The Guardian. "Whoever did this would have been feared: this would have resonated, I think, through time and space in that particular region, probably for...