Insatiable Appetites: Imperial Encounters with Cannibals in the North Atlantic World

Insatiable Appetites offers a thoughtful and wide-ranging analysis of cannibalism as a crucial ingredient of European imperialism during the early modern period. Watson finds references to cannibalism as a savage manifestation of disordered sex and gender in the accounts of Spanish, French, and English chroniclers across four centuries before it finally gives way to a new representation of cannibalistic men in the nineteenth century.

Author(s): Kelly L. Watson
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2015-04-24
Pages: 256
Categories: History