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Thinking About Cannibalism. Shirley Lindenbaum. Department of Anthropology, City University of New York, New York, New York 10016-4309; email: lindenbaum@mindspring.com. Key Words exoticism, primitivism, anthropological theory, savage/civilized. opposition, the modern Western and postmodern self.
Cannibalism, in Freud’s theory, stands at the root of the emergence of subjectivity and social: basically, a horde of sons, motivated by incestuous wishes for their mother, murder their father and consume his body in an act of primordial cannibalism: «Cannibal savages as they were, it goes without saying that they devoured their victim as ...
15 wrz 2004 · Thinking About Cannibalism. S. Lindenbaum. Published 15 September 2004. Sociology, History. Annual Review of Anthropology. The discourse of cannibalism, which began in the encounter between Europe and the Americas, became a defining feature of the colonial experience in the New World, especially in the Pacific.
Among anthropologists cannibalism is now widely viewed as a complex, diverse cultural practice whose meaning is determined by the sociohistorical context in which it is practiced rather than through a preset “universal” pattern.6 Insofar as they see the act of cannibalism enabling the production of meanings and values within a particular ...
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.
In 2012, Giordano, White and Lester (40) studied 39 criminal cannibals and described three types: lust cannibalism (the result of an intense desire or need), revenge cannibalism (often drug or alcohol induced), and delusional cannibalism.
cannibalism, with a view to explicating a range of ways of understanding human beings in which the possibility of a person’s being something to eat is not excluded. The most sustained
