Eating and Being Eaten: Cannibalism as Food for Thought

Cover
Title page
Copyright page
About the Authors
Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1 - Introduction: Cannibalism as Food for Thought
	Introduction
	There is more meat to cannibalism than meets the eye
	Compassionate Cannibalism
	Being Human as Eating and Being Eaten
	Humans and Animals as Two Sides of the Same Cannibal Feast
	Cannibalism in Camouflage
	Contributions to this Volume: an Overview
	Conclusion
	Endnotes
	References
Chapter 2 - The Violence of Translating People into Cannibals: The Man-Eating Anthropologists
	The violence of translating people into cannibals
	Anthropology, cannibalism and colonial violence
	The problematic notion of cannibalism
	The ethnography of cannibalism: representing the other
	Ethnography and the violence of making a text from data
	Cannibalism: beyond the modern world and towards a new anthropology
	Endnotes
	References
Chapter 3 - Incorporated or Cannibalised by Posthuman Others? Sanctions and Witchcraft in Contemporary Zimbabwe
	Introduction
	The Capture and Cannibalisation of Zimbabwe: on the Imperial Leviathan
	Luring and Incorporating ‘Delicious’ Africa in a Cannibalistic World: Zimbabwe and Sanctions
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4 - ‘The Body of Christ? Amen’: Christianity and the Cannibalisation of the Bamenda Grassfielders (Cameroon)
	Introduction
	Eating up Traditional Rulers: the Projection and Delegitimisation Argument
	Ex-soldiers or ‘Fernando Po Repartees’ and the Licence to Consume Grassfielders
	The Ex-servicemen and Cannibalism
	Consuming and being Consumed: ‘Love’ and ‘Sex’ in the Church Compounds
	Domestication of Western Christianity by the Bamenda Grassfielders
	Conclusion
	Endnotes
	References
Chapter 5 - Researching Cannibalising Obligations in Post-apartheid South Africa
	Introduction
	Background on Black Middle Class in South Africa
	Cannibalising Black Middle Class
	Cannibalising Obligations
	Media on Cannibalising Black Tax
	Citizenship and Cannibalism
	Cannibalising Systemic Obligations
	Conclusion
	Endnotes
	References
Chapter 6 - Lehu la gago le ya mphidisha. ‘Your death nourishes me’
	The investment of ‘life’
	The saga of human ashes
	Conclusion
	Endnotes
	References
Chapter 7 - Rainbow Nation of the Flesh
	The Kitchen
	Appetisers
	Main Course
	Dessert
	Gluttony
	In Lieu of a Conclusion: After Dinner Mint, Coffee & Brandy
	References
Chapter 8 - My African Heart: The Obscure Gourmandise of an Enlightened Man
	Introduction
	The Pale Tale of Extraction
	The Path of the Dying Heart
	Conclusion
	Endnotes
	References
Chapter 9 - Consumerisation of cannibalism in contemporary Japanese society
	Introduction
	Exploiting the suicidal
	Fantasising reality and realising the fantasy
	Fetish to rawness
	Consumerisation of cannibalism
	Concluding remarks
	Endnotes
	References
INDEX
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