Eat Thy Neighbour: A History of Cannibalism
by:
Daniel Diehl (author)
This study puts cannibalism into its social and historical perspective. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, numerous prohibitions surround the subject, and yet a dark fascination with the subject remains. Characters include Sweeny Todd, Jeffrey Dahmer, Armin Meiwes, and much to the...
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This study puts cannibalism into its social and historical perspective. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, numerous prohibitions surround the subject, and yet a dark fascination with the subject remains. Characters include Sweeny Todd, Jeffrey Dahmer, Armin Meiwes, and much to the pleasure of Boris Johnson the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea. All tastes are catered for in this hugely compelling book that is always vivacious but never salacious.
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780750943734 (0750943734)
Publish date: marzec 2009 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: The History Press
Pages no: 314
Edition language: English
Unlike seemingly every other reviewer, I -didn't- enjoy the first part of the book; most of it is a collection of unsourced and unlikely atrocity stories. A couple of Google searches convinced me at least some of these were cribbed from weird extremist propaganda publications, or that the authors an...
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