Thinking about cannibalism

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 33, Issue , 2004, Pages 475-498

  Lindenbaum, Shirley ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropological theory; Exoticism; Primitivism; Savage civilized opposition; The modern Western and postmodern self

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; CULTURAL TRADITION; KNOWLEDGE; WESTERN PERCEPTION;

EID: 9144243638     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143758     Document Type: Article

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