Publication

2004-09-08 - University of Illinois Press

Language

English

Word Count

46,000 words, Guess

Page Count

184 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2003023388
  • Goodreads1271586

Classifications

  • LCCGN409 .W35 2004

Description

"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, OurselvesHardcoverUniversity of Illinois Press2004-09-08

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