Dinner with a Cannibal

The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo

Carole A Travis-Henikoff

• Editorial: Santa Monica Press
• Año: 2008
• ISBN:
  9781595808691
• Categoría: Ciencias sociales
• Categoría: Antropología

Presenting the history of cannibalism in concert with human evolution, Dinner with a Cannibal takes its readers on an astonishing trip around the world and through history, examining its subject from every angle in order to paint the incredible, multifaceted panoply that is the reality of cannibalism. At the heart of Carole A. Travis-Henikoff's book is the question of how cannibalism began with the human species and how it has become an unspeakable taboo today. At a time when science is being battered by religions and failing teaching methods, Dinner with a Cannibal presents slices of multiple sciences in a readable, understandable form nested within a wealth of data. With history, paleoanthropology, science, gore, sex, murder, war, culinary tidbits, medical facts, and anthropology filling its pages, Dinner with a Cannibal presents both the light and dark side of the human story; the story of how we came to be all the things we are today.

INDEX

A.

Abell, Paul, 82

Africa, 274–286

Akaramas/Amarekaire/Harakambut, 233–237, 244

Alexander the Great, 80, 220

Alligator, 63, 215

Alpers, Michael, 101

Americans, First, 247–263

Chippewa, 262

Coastal Route, 252, 253

Cowboy Wash, 259

Dentition, 251, 257

Eskimos, 40, 46, 47, 140, 248

Faunal extinctions, 254

Four Corners, 224–225, 257, 259

Fuegians, 248, 249, 251

“Hamatsa” 261, 262

Heiltsuk, 262

Huron, 256, 262, 263

Iroquois, 256

“Kelp highway,” 253–254

Languages, 207–208, 252

Miami, 256

Mississippi, 247

Mohawks, 256

Monte Verde, 253

Pot-polishing, 257

Travois, 255–256

Amphibians, 60, 63

Spadefooted toad, 63

Strawberry frog, 61

Andes (Alive party), 48–53

Antelope, 65

Aquatics

Black bass, 59

Blue crabs (soft shell), 56

Salmon, 58

Sharks, 59, 113, 114, 141

Squid, 32, 58, 59

Archaeological sites

(see also fossils and sites)

Blombos Cave, 180

Gournay-sur-Aronde, 226, 227

Gran Dolina, 89, 90, 293

Klasies River mouth cave, 180

Mancos 5MTUMR–2346, 257, 258

Ribemont-sur-Ancre, 226

Asmat, 97, 238–243

Assyrians, 220

Attila the Hun, 220

Australian Aborigines, 178–189

Botany Bay, 184

Buntingdale Mission, 185

Dreamtime, 183, 189

Drought, 179, 183, 184, 188

Gagudju tribe, 188

Geelong and Colac, 185

Moldered, 182

Scarification, 180, 182, 183

Talgoro, 188

Australopitheci...