Dinner with a cannibal : the complete history of mankind's oldest taboo / Carole A. Travis-Henikoff ; foreword by Christy G. Turner II.
Travis-Henikoff, Carole A.
2008
GN409 .T73 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Dinner with a cannibal : the complete history of mankind's oldest taboo / Carole A. Travis-Henikoff ; foreword by Christy G. Turner II.
Author Travis-Henikoff, Carole A.
ISBN 9781595800305
1595800301
Publication Details Santa Monica, Calif. : Santa Monica Press, c2008.
Language English
Description 333 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number GN409 .T73 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 394/.9
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-323) and index.
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Acknowledgments
Foreword / Christy G. Turner II
Introduction
[pt. 1]. How we got to where we are
1. The incredible foods we eat
2. Ubiquitous food
3. Inner workings
4. Feet to meat
5. Cannibalism, disease and genetics
6. Dinner with a cannibal
[pt. 2]. As you believe, so shall it be
7. Religious acts
8. Murder and medicine
9. Mesoamerica
10. The lost culture of the Wari
11. Through a distant window
12. Infanticide
13. Skeletons in our closets
[pt. 3]. Cannibalism : past and present
14. Man the warrior
15. Keep the river on your right
16. Coming to the Americas
17. Politics and the color red
18. Africa : then and now
[pt. 4]. Finale : Looking back to the present
19. It's a wrap - film at eleven
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

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