Seeing cannibals : European colonial discourses on the Latin American other

The figure of the cannibal has been central in the development of European colonial discourses on Latin America. It has functioned as a locus for coming to grips with otherness and as a crucial marker for differentiating between the "civilised" and the "savage" in European discou...

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Main Author: Jimenez del Val, Nasheli
Published: Cardiff University 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.584726