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The Man-Eating Myth was widely reviewed in academic journals and also attracted attention from mainstream press. Views were mixed, with most reviewers highlighting the intentionally provocative nature of the work. Critics charged Arens with constructing straw man arguments and for exaggerating the methodological problems within anthropology ...
William Arens' 1979 book The Man-Eating Myth claimed that "there is no firm, substantiable evidence for the socially accepted practice of cannibalism anywhere in the world, at any time in history", but his views have been largely rejected as irreconcilable with the actual evidence. [4] [5]
William Arens, author of The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy, [21] questions the credibility of reports of cannibalism and argues that the description by one group of people of another people as cannibals is a consistent and demonstrable ideological and rhetorical device to establish perceived cultural superiority. Arens bases ...
William Arens seeks to discredit Staden's and other writers' accounts of cannibalism in his book The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology & Anthropophagy, where he claims that when concerning the Tupinambá, "rather than dealing with an instance of serial documentation of cannibalism, we are more likely confronting only one source of dubious testimony ...
Arens, William, The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy, Oxford University Press, 1979. Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture, edited by Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger. Foreword by Brian Aldiss. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
In 1866, W.S. Gilbert wrote a song, "The Yarn of the Nancy Bell", in which the last survivor of shipwreck sings that he is the entire crew after drawing lots and eating his other shipmates. The stories of Richard Parker (real and fictional) inspired the name of the tiger in Yann Martel 's novel Life of Pi , in which cannibalism is discussed ...
Arens, William (1979). The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195027938. Cohn, Norman (1975). Europe's Inner Demons: An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt. Sussex and London: Sussex University Press and Heinemann Educational Books. ISBN 0-435-82183-0. Hutton, Ronald (1999).
The Man-Eating Myth; Meat Is Murder (book) Miracle in the Andes; T. This Horrid Practice; True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil