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Keseberg confessed to cannibalizing the other survivors after their deaths, but when the rescuers accused him of murdering Tamsen Donner, Keseberg insisted that she died naturally after getting lost in the snow on the path from the Alder Creek camp to the lake cabins.
18 sie 1983 · Lewis attempts the synthesis of two rival accounts: the thesis, according to which languages are a semantic system abstracted from the nature and history of human affairs; and the antithesis, according to which language is a rational, convention‐governed human social activity.
discourse of cannibalism, which began with the encounter between Europe and the Americas, was to become a defining feature of colonial encounters in the New World, and especially the Pacific, during which the image of the "noble savage" suffered progressive degradation. As a prime symbol or signifier of "barbarism"
The cannibalism aspect gripped the American consciousness, and Keseberg was cast as the savage who ate humans not just for sustenance, but for pleasure.
15 wrz 2004 · This chapter reviews anthropological approaches to cannibalism and suggests that we may now be in a position to exorcise the stigma associated with the notion of the primitive.
As a linguistic categoxy, 'discourse' is either used as a synonym for language or text, or is closely associated with one of these notions. 'Discourse' in a sociological sense should refer to a class of texts. This definition confers upon the concept of discourse an intertextual dimension.
This chapter reviews anthropological approaches to cannibalism and suggests that we may now be in a position to exorcise the stigma associated with the notion of the primitive.
