Eat Thy Neighbour

A History of Cannibalism

Daniel Diehl, Mark P Donnelly (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2006
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-4372-7 (ISBN)

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A lively and easily digestible account of cannibalism and cannibals from the earliest incidents through to the modern day.

Cannibalism is unquestionably one of the oldest and deepest-seated taboos. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, religious, moral and social prohibitions surround the topic. But even as our minds recoil at the mention of actual acts of cannibalism there is some dark fascination with the subject. Appalling crimes of humans eating other humans are blown into major news stories and gory movies: both Hitchcock's Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were based on the crimes of Ed Gein, who is profiled, along with others, in this book. In Eat Thy Neighbour the authors put the subject of cannibalism into its social and historical perspective.

DANIEL DIEHL and Mark P. Donnelly are social and cultural historians who have collaborated together on a number of books and television programmes, including the series Tales from the Tower on which their book is based. MARK P. DONNELLY and Daniel Diehl are social and cultural historians who have collaborated together on a number of books and television programmes, including the series Tales from the Tower on which their book is based.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.8.2006
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7509-4372-6 / 0750943726
ISBN-13	978-0-7509-4372-7 / 9780750943727
Zustand	Neuware