Eat Thy Neighbour
A History of Cannibalism
Published on 30. May 2012
160 pages
978-0-7524-8677-2 (ISBN)
Description
Cannibalism is unquestionably one of the oldest and deepest-seated taboos. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, religious, moral and social prohibitions surround the topic. But even as our minds recoil at the mention of actual acts of cannibalism there is some dark fascination with the subject. Appalling crimes of humans eating other humans are blown into major news stories and gory movies: both Hitchcock's Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were based on the crimes of Ed Gein, who is profiled, along with others, in this book. In Eat Thy Neighbour the authors put the subject of cannibalism into its social and historical perspective.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
File size
1,46 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-8677-2 (9780752486772)
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DANIEL DIEHL and Mark P. Donnelly are social and cultural historians who have collaborated together on a number of books and television programmes, including the series Tales from the Tower on which their book is based.
MARK P. DONNELLY and Daniel Diehl are social and cultural historians who have collaborated together on a number of books and television programmes, including the series Tales from the Tower on which their book is based.
MARK P. DONNELLY and Daniel Diehl are social and cultural historians who have collaborated together on a number of books and television programmes, including the series Tales from the Tower on which their book is based.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part One - Cultural Cannibalism
- One: A Word of Warning: Cannibalism in Myth, Legend, Folklore and Fiction
- Two: Ancient Origins: Archaeological Evidence of Cannibalism
- Three: Institutionalised Cannibalism: Rituals, Religion and Magical Rites
- Four: Cannibalism in extremis: Famine, Disaster and Warfare
- Part Two - Case Studies of Taboo Breakers
- Five: Keeping it in the Family: Sawney Beane (c. 1400-35)
- Six: The Proof of the Pudding is in the Tasting: Margery Lovett and Sweeney Todd (1789-1801)
- Seven: A Hunger for Adventure: Alfred Packer (1874)
- Eight: This Little Piggy Went to Market: Karl Denke and George Grossman (1921-4)
- Nine: Candy from a Baby: Albert Fish (1924-34)
- Ten: The Shallow End of the Gene Pool: Ottis Toole and Henry Lee Lucas (1951-83)
- Eleven: Psycho Killer qu'est-ce que c'est? Ed Gein (1954-7)
- Twelve: From Russia with Hate: André Chikatilo (1978-90)
- Thirteen: Zombie Sex Slaves of Milwaukee: Jeffrey Dahmer (1978-91)
- Fourteen: Sushi Dreams: Issei Sagawa (1981)
- Fifteen: Even the Best of Families: Hadden and Bradfield Clark (1984-92)
- Sixteen: Stocks and Bondage: Gary Heidnik (1986-7)
- Seventeen: Bringing Home the Bacon: Nicolas Claux (1990-4)
- Eighteen: Spider on the Web: Armin Meiwes (2001)
- Nineteen: Something Completely Different: Marc Sappington (2001)
- Twenty: A Rising Tide of Flesh Eaters? The Future of Cannibalism
- Notes on Sources
- Bibliography
- Plates
