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Fayetteville. 2019. February 2019. University of Arkansas Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781682260821. Food and Foodways series. 6 images. 250 pages. paperback. Cover image: Barbarities in the West Indias, James Gillray. Cover design by Liz Lester. keywords: Cannibalism Atlantic History. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Long before the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, colony and its Starving Time of 1609–1610-one of the most famous cannibalism narratives in North American colonial history-cannibalism played an important role in shaping the human relationship to food, hunger, and moral outrage. Why did colonial invaders go out of their way to accuse women of cannibalism? What challenges did Spaniards face in trying to explain Eucharist rites to Native peoples? What roles did preconceived notions about non-Europeans play in inflating accounts of cannibalism in Christopher Columbus's reports as they moved through Italian merchant circles? Asking questions such as these and exploring what it meant to accuse someone of eating people as well as how cannibalism rumors facilitated slavery and the rise of empires, To Feast on Us as Their Prey posits that it is impossible to separate histories of cannibalism from the role food and hunger have played in the colonization efforts that shaped our modern world. Funded in part by the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts. inventory #39170.
