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Author Travis-Henikoff, Carole A.

Title Dinner with a cannibal : the complete history of mankind's oldest taboo / Carole A. Travis-Henikoff ; foreword by Christy G. Turner II.

Publication Info. Santa Monica, Calif. : Santa Monica Press, [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  394.9 TRAVIS-HENIKOFF    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  394.9 T69    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  394.9 TRAVIS-HENIKOFF    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  394.9 TRA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  394.9 TR    Check Shelf
Description 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-323) and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Christy G. Turner II -- Introduction -- [pt. 1]. How we got to where we are -- 1. The incredible foods we eat -- 2. Ubiquitous food -- 3. Inner workings -- 4. Feet to meat -- 5. Cannibalism, disease and genetics -- 6. Dinner with a cannibal -- [pt. 2]. As you believe, so shall it be -- 7. Religious acts -- 8. Murder and medicine -- 9. Mesoamerica -- 10. The lost culture of the Wari -- 11. Through a distant window -- 12. Infanticide -- 13. Skeletons in our closets -- [pt. 3]. Cannibalism : past and present -- 14. Man the warrior -- 15. Keep the river on your right -- 16. Coming to the Americas -- 17. Politics and the color red -- 18. Africa : then and now -- [pt. 4]. Finale : Looking back to the present -- 19. It's a wrap - film at eleven -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject Cannibalism.
Taboo.
ISBN 9781595800305
1595800301
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