Author: John Roy Bohlen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960770212
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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The Author is protesting the many ways we Christians attack each other instead of supporting each other.

Author: BOOK SALES
Publisher: Booksales
ISBN: 9780316732536
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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The darkest, innermost secrets of cannibals and evil cult killers are revealed.

Author: Ray Black
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9780751536652
Category : Cannibalism
Languages : en
Pages : 575

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This book delves into the gruesome side of human nature. It describes brutal, horrific murders where people have been totally brainwashed by a leading cult figure. They prey on their victims leaving a bloodbath behind them. It reveals some of the dark secrets that drive these people to commit such heinous crimes. Was the Easter Islanders' cannibalism exclusively a religious rite or the expression of an urge for revenge? Or was it induced by a simple liking for human flesh that could impel a man to kill for no other reason than his desire for fresh meat.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cannibalism
Languages : en
Pages : 575

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Author: Peggy Reeves Sanday
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316583279
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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The practice of cannibalism is in certain cultures rejected as evil, while in others it plays a central part in the ritual order. Anthropologists have offered various explanations for the existence of cannibalism, none of which, Peggy Sanday claims, is adequate. In this book she presents a new approach to understanding the phenomenon. Through a detailed examination of ritual cannibalism in selected tribal societies, and a comparison of those cases with others in which the practice is absent, she shows that cannibalism is closely linked to people's orientation to the world, and that it serves as a concrete device for distinguishing the 'cultural self' from the 'natural other'. Combining perspectives drawn from the work of Ricoeur, Freud, Hegel, and Jung and from symbolic anthropology, Sanday argues that ritual cannibalism is intimately connected both with the constructs by which the origin and continuity of life are understood and assured from one generation to the next and with the way in which that understanding is used to control the vital forces considered necessary for the cannibalism in a culture derives from basic human attitudes toward life and death, combined with the realities of the material world. As well as making an original contribution to the understanding of the significant human practice, Sanday also develops a theoretical argument of wider relevance to anthropologists, sociologists, and other readers interested in the function and meaning of cannibalism.

Author: Nathan Constantine
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
ISBN: 1848586132
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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Desperation, duty and desire - the three primary motives for breaking what is the oldest taboo in the Western world, cannibalism. This book investigates all three and presents startling evidence that will challenge cultural and moral perceptions as never before. It explains how in some societies, 'duty' cannibalism has been integral to existence and viewed as both necessary and socially acceptable. If most people find such a concept difficult to comprehend, they might just be able to reserve judgement on those driven to eat companions out of sheer desperation in order to survive. But, by far the most disturbing of the three types is 'desire cannibalism', practiced by men such as Albert Fish and Ed Gein who ate human flesh simply because they wanted to. If the second type of cannibalism shows what we humans are capable of under extreme stress, this third gives a chilling insight into what some of us require for emotional and sexual gratification. A History of Cannibalism treats seriously, and with great erudition and understanding, a subject that causes many people to recoil in horror and disbelief. It examines the various - and sometime conflicting - motives, and assesses the background to many notorious cases. It offers no easy answers but a fascinating insight into the forces that lie deep within the human psyche.

Author: Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144450
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Spanning myth, history, and contemporary culture, a terrifying and illuminating excavation of the meaning of cannibalism. Every culture has monsters that eat us, and every culture repels in horror when we eat ourselves. From Grendel to medieval Scottish cannibal Sawney Bean, and from the Ghuls of ancient Persia to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, tales of being consumed are both universal and universally terrifying. In this book, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. explores the full range of monsters that eat the dead: ghouls, cannibals, wendigos, and other beings that feast on human flesh. Moving from myth through history to contemporary popular culture, Wetmore considers everything from ancient Greek myths of feeding humans to the gods, through sky burial in Tibet and Zoroastrianism, to actual cases of cannibalism in modern societies. By examining these seemingly inhuman acts, Eaters of the Dead reveals that those who consume corpses can teach us a great deal about human nature—and our deepest human fears.

Author: Sam Hane
Publisher: Waterfront Productions
ISBN: 9780997614091
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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An adult activity book collaboration between artist/illustrator Shane Owen AKA SamHane and filmmaker/author John Borowski. Includes: 25 illustrations to color with information on each person, spot the difference Ed Kemper Quiz, and a full color Pogo Mask is included on the back cover! The book was created so that after coloring an image, the page can be torn out and framed as the reverse side of each illustration has historical facts on each case.

Author: Guy Newman Smith
Publisher: Black Hill Books
ISBN: 9780450055485
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: Charles Bowden
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780865476530
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Blues for Cannibals continues the quest Bowden began in Blood Orchid-to discover the headwaters of the sickness that seeps through the American soul, and to consider what it might mean to come fully alive in a time of exalted consumption, global pillage, gated communities, and wholesale destruction of the environment. Down, down he leads us, in intoxicating, nearly hallucinogenic prose-past the Yaqui, the Anasazi, and other ghosts of our collective history, past the hookers, winos, and assorted have-nots outside the prosperous circle by the fire. We meet a prisoner obsessed with painting presidents, sex offenders whose desires are not as alien as we wish, a murderer whose execution does not cure what ails us. "I wound up looking at a world where cannibalism is life," Bowden writes, "and of course, given the diet, a life without a future." He mourns a young artist who couldn't find a reason to keep living and tends a mesquite tree that won't die. And down among its metaphoric roots, he reacquaints us with the appetites-fierce, flawed, human-that might save us too. Blues for Cannibals is scripture for an age when bushes no longer burn.