Insatiable Appetites Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World【電子書籍】[ Kelly L. Watson ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A comparative history of cross-cultural encounters and the critical role of cannibalism in the early modern period＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞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 rituals they claim to have witnessed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this definitive analysis, Kelly L. Watson argues that the persistent rumors of cannibalism surrounding Native Americans served a specific and practical purpose for European settlers. These colonizers had to forge new identities for themselves in the Americas and find ways to not only subdue but also co-exist with native peoples. They established hierarchical categories of European superiority and Indian inferiority upon which imperial power in the Americas was predicated.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In he．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る