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Historical fiction2022The Age of the Red Ants
by Tanya Pyankova
In spring of 1933 the famine in Machukhy came to its climax. The first case of cannibalism, lynch law, malnutrition-related mental disorders. The village lives in degradation. People are desperate, and they lose their humanity, they are ready to eat everything to survive. And here are two stranger women, two victims of their time, two opposite sides of the great darkness, called hunger, are at arm's length… Young Yavdokha, madness-like insight — and Solya, the holy blindness. One is killed by hunger — the other one is saved. One is promised to have eternal night — the other one is given hope for a happy renewal. And they do not know yet that they go towards each other. They go in order eventually to hug one another and to build a fragile bridge over the insatiable anthill of their torturers…
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June 2011Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires
The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians
by Richard Sugg
This innovative new study brings to light a much neglected area of early modern medicine – the use and consumption of parts of dead bodies for healing. Richard Sugg shows how, for over two hundred years in early-modern Europe, the rich and the poor, the educated and the illiterate all participated in cannibalism on a more or less routine basis.
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May 2021Writing the Hamat'sa: Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal Dance
Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal Dance
by Aaron Glass
Long known as the Cannibal Dance, the Hamat̓sa is among the most important hereditary prerogatives of the Kwakwa̱ka̱ꞌwakw of British Columbia. In the late nineteenth century, as anthropologists arrived to document the practice, colonial agents were pursuing its eradication and Kwakwa̱ka̱ꞌwakw were adapting it to endure. In the process, the dance – with dramatic choreography, magnificent bird masks, and an aura of cannibalism – entered a vast library of ethnographic texts. Writing the Hamat̓sa offers a critical survey of attempts to record, describe, and interpret the dance over four centuries. Going beyond postcolonial critiques of representation that often ignore Indigenous agency in the ethnographic encounter, Writing the Hamat̓sa focuses on forms of textual mediation and Indigenous response that helped transofrm the ceremony from a set of specific performances into a generalized cultural icon. This meticulous work illuminates how Indigenous people contribute to, contest, and repurpose texts in the process of fashioning modern identities under settler colonialism.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersCannibal Old Me
Spoken Sources in Melville’s Early Works
by Mark K. Bercaw Edwards (author)
An examination of Melville’s “borrowing”“Mary Bercaw Edwards has researched the sources very thoroughly, going well beyond the previously published source studies. The result is a sound historical account of the ‘talk’ Melville encountered in the 1840s, and in emphasizing the oral sources of Melville’s discourses, Edwards provides an original contribution to source studies of Melville. She presents her research interestingly as well, in clear, readable prose. Her scholarship will certainly be of interest to Melville scholars, but it will also engage the attention of anyone interested in American culture and popular culture of the period.”—John Samson, associate professor of English, Texas Tech UniversityAt the age of twenty-one, Herman Melville signed on the whaleship Acushnet as a common seaman and sailed from Massachusetts to the South Pacific. Upon reaching Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, he deserted and spent a month ashore on this reputed “cannibal island.” He departed as crew of another whaleship but was put ashore in the heavily missionized Tahitian islands after participating in a bloodless mutiny. Eventually making his way to Hawaii, he joined the crew of the American frigate United States and finally reached Boston in October 1844 after four years at sea.By the time he sat down to write his first book, Melville had been recounting tales of these experiences orally for four years. The spoken elements of the overlapping discourses involving sailors, cannibals, and missionaries are essential to his first six books. Mary K. Bercaw Edwards investigates the interplay between spoken sources and written narratives. She closely examines how Melville altered original stories, and she questions his truthfulness about his experiences. Bercaw Edwards also explores the synergistic blend of the oral and written worlds of seafaring and the South Pacific and provides an analysis of Melville’s development as a writer. It is a study of the aesthetic, ethical, linguistic, and cultural implications of Melville’s borrowing.Cannibal Old Me is an excellent contribution to Melville scholarship, challenging long-held assumptions regarding his early works. Scholars as well as students will welcome it as an indispensable addition to the study of nineteenth-century literature and maritime history.
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Tribal religionsCannibalism is an Acquired Taste
And Other Notes From Conversations With Anthropologist Omer C. Stewart
by Carol L Howell
Omer Stewart is most noted for his career-long study of the Peyote religion. His mentor, A L Kroeber, instilled in him an abiding respect for cultural variation. Applying this fundamental principle to his work in the 1930s, Omer was surprised to find himself at odds with many notable colleagues. With characteristic self-confidence, he was undeterred in his effort to document the religion, defend its practice, and push open the door to applied anthropology. In CANNIBALISM IS AN ACQUIRED TASTE, Carol L Howell weaves together taped interviews with Stewart; excerpts from his letters, notes, and papers; and recollections of family members and others. The result is a fascinating sketch not only of Omer Stewart as a person but also of his contributions to the field of anthropology and the academic and social milieu in which he participated. A must for anthropologists and anyone interested in the art of biography.
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Horror & ghost storiesLynnwood
by Thomas Brown
FINALIST in the PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZEThe unthinkable is happening in Lynnwood – a village with centuries of guilt on its conscience.Who wouldn't want to live in an idyllic village in the English countryside like Lynnwood? With its charming pub, old dairy, friendly vicar, gurgling brooks, and its old paths with memories of simpler times. But behind the conventional appearance of Lynnwood's villagers, only two sorts of people crawl out of the woodwork: those who hunt and those who are prey. Reviews: 'A dark horror story set in a picturesque village. I would recommend this to fans of classic English horror as well as fans of Stephen King.' – Lucy O'Connor, Waterstones "A quintessentially British folk horror chiller, with an escalating power of dread that is rendered deftly. A new voice in British horror, that you'll want to read, has entered the field." – Adam Nevill > 'The plot line is new and exciting ... I was surprised more than once at what was happening. If you are looking for a good book, definitely pick up this one.' – Alison Mudge, Librarian, USA " … A dark journey not only of the mind, but of the soul. Mr. Brown's extraordinary talent is evident as he paints a virtual feast for the reader with eloquently chosen prose in this powerfully engaging novel." – Nina D'Arcangela 'An exciting, on the edge of your seat gothic that will have readers begging for more.' – Rosemary Smith, Librarian 'An exciting début from a new young writer with a dark imagination. Thomas Brown's beautifully written novel proposes a modern gothic forest far from the tourist trail, a place filled with strange events and eerie consequences.' – Philip Hoare. 'This book was great! I loved the author's writing style - the words flowed perfectly. Reading this was less like reading a book and more like watching the movie in my mind's eye. Fantastic!' – Laura Smith, Goodreads Reviewer
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FictionInstrucciones para la catástrofe
by Guillermo Fajardo
These short stories are a catalog of the ways in which we inhabit our hells. A Pontius Pilate punished by a vengeful God, a detective who seeks justice at all costs, communities ravaged by cannibalism and violence, secret societies that find pleasure in torturing animals. With a refined and lively language, the characters in these stories are left broken amid the ashes left by their own destiny. Guillermo Fajardo summons a multitude of specters that, wrapped in their shadows, are a constant reminder of their failures. Driven by curiosity and a sense of survival, these lives have lost their purpose. The reader will have to show them the way.
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FictionÀ présent, vous pouvez enterrer la mariée
by Oren Miller
Hyppolite Bartoli is mad with grief. His daughter is found dead on her wedding day, burnt dead with her wedding gown left pristine. Not trusting for a second the local policemen, he asks two investigators known for their talent to resolve the most uncanny cases for help. Soon enough, the mystery darkens and death takes its toll, varying the pleasure: mass shooting, cannibalism, unexplainable fits of madness and poisoning... All of it feeding the craziest of leads and multiplying the least condemnable suspects of Monaco's good society. Is the key to the case to be found within the highest circles... or merely under the veil of the bride?
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Japanese Demon Lore
Oni, from Ancient Times to the Present
by Noriko Reider
"As Noriko Reider eloquently shows in this volume, oni let us have a glimpse at how the Japanese imagine their world in its relation with the outside, continually reinterpreted according to the change of times. They help people to come to terms with the other."—Peter Knecht, editor of Asian Folklore Studies Oni, ubiquitous supernatural figures in Japanese literature, lore, art, and religion, usually appear as demons or ogres. Characteristically threatening, monstrous creatures with ugly features and fearful habits, including cannibalism, they also can be harbingers of prosperity, beautiful and sexual, and especially in modern contexts, even cute and lovable. There has been much ambiguity in their character and identity over their long history. Usually male, their female manifestations convey distinctivly gendered social and cultural meanings. Oni appear frequently in various arts and media, from Noh theater and picture scrolls to modern fiction and political propaganda, They remain common figures in popular Japanese anime, manga, and film and are becoming embedded in American and international popular culture through such media. Noriko Reiderýs book is the first in English devoted to oni. Reider fully examines their cultural history, multifaceted roles, and complex significance as "others" to the Japanese.
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August 2019Und ewig lockt das Blut - Der Vampir in Aberglaube und Literatur
by Hagen Röhrig
Im Jahr 1997 feierte der wohl berühmteste aller Vampire - Graf Dracula - einen runden Geburtstag: Er wurde 100 Jahre alt. Bram Stokers RomanDracula erschien 1897 und war seither zumindest in Großbritannien nie 'out of print'. Manche Wissenschaftler sagen sogar, es sei "[...] nach der BIBEL das meist verkaufte Buch der Welt [...]"1. Dies mag vielleicht übertrieben sein, doch trifft es sicherlich zu, dass der untote Graf zum Prototyp des Vampirs geworden ist. Eine Abhandlung über Vampire. Sicherlich ist dies immer noch kein alltägliches Thema, auch wenn seit den 1970er Jahren vermehrt über die Blutsauger geschrieben wird. Nicht zuletzt die auf Horror und Sadismus reduzierten Verarbeitungen des Vampirmotives, die vor allem auf Bram Stokers Roman Draculabasieren, haben dazu beigetragen, dass den Vampirgeschichten und -filmen der Hauch der Zweitklassigkeit anhaftet. Oft zurecht, wenn man sich beispielsweise an die Vampirfilme der britischen Hammer-Production erinnert, in denen Christopher Lee die Rolle Graf Draculas verkörperte. Bis auf den ersten Teil dieser Vampirfilmreihe, der sich eng an Bram Stokers Buch hielt und auch dessen Name trägt, lassen die Fortsetzungen, wie etwa Dracula jagt Mini-Mädchenoder Frisches Blut für Dracula, die verschiedenen Sinnebenen der ursprünglichen Dracula-Geschichte Stokers vermissen. Für die meisten von uns ist der Vampir durch diese und andere Verarbeitungen des Sujets zu einem reinen Horrorwesen verkommen, das kaum eine tiefere Bedeutung hat und einzig und allein seine Existenzberechtigung in Literatur und Film daraus bezieht, uns zu erschrecken und das Gruseln zu lehren. Aber der Vampir ist mehr. Viel mehr. Die Absicht dieses Buches ist es, die Figur des Vampirs tiefer zu beleuchten und seine ihm inhärenten Bedeutungsebenen aufzuzeigen. Dazu bedarf es einer groben Zweiteilung der zu untersuchenden Bereiche. Zum einen muss der Vampir als Figur des Aberglaubens genauer betrachtet werden, denn hier liegen seine Ursprünge und von hier aus eroberte er sich seinen Platz in der Literatur und in den anderen Kunstformen. Zum anderen soll dann gezeigt werden, wie das Vampirmotiv in der Literatur Verwendung fand. Hierfür wird, wie weiter oben bereits angesprochen, der wohl bekannteste Vampirroman herangezogen: Bram Stokers Dracula. Dementsprechend widmet sich das folgende zweite Kapitel dieser Arbeit zunächst dem Vampir des Volksglaubens. Es wird darauf eingegangen, wer potentiell als Vampir enden kann und wie sich die Menschen des Balkans den Vampir vorstellten. Daran schließt sich ein Abschnitt über Abwehr- und Tötungsmechanismen an. In diesen Kapiteln wird bereits deutlich werden, dass der Vampirismus des Volksglaubens einen wesentlich differenzierteren Charakter aufweist, als es die Klischeevorstellungen erwarten lassen. Mit den Abschnitten über die Deutungsversuche der Vampirfigur taucht das Buch dann ein in die medizinisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Grundlagen, die zu einem solchen Aberglauben geführt haben könnten, sowie in die psychogenen und sexualpsychologischen Erklärungsversuche. In diesem Zusammenhang wird auch auf den großen Einfluß der Kirchen einzugehen sein, der deutliche Spuren im Glauben an die Vampire und sogar in der Figur der Untoten selbst hinterlassen hat. Das dritte Kapitel wendet sich dann dem literarischen Vampir zu. Auf den zu besprechenden Roman Draculahinarbeitend, werden zunächst dessen literarische Vorgänger sowie deren Einflüsse auf diesen Roman vorgestellt. Schließlich soll versucht werden, die Bedeutungsebenen des Vampirmotives im Roman aufzuzeigen. Trotz einiger Überschneidungen mit den Sinnebenen des Vampirs aus dem Aberglauben stößt man hier auf Modifizierungen des Sujets, die Stoker bewusst in seinen Roman einbaute um so, mit Hilfe der Vampirfigur, beispielsweise Sozial- und Gesellschaftskritik zu üben. ObwohlDraculasicherlich ein Höhepunkt des Sujets sein dürfte, hört die Verarbeitung des Vampirmotives nach 1897 nicht auf. Das junge Medium Film nimmt sich der Untoten an, und ebenfalls in der Literatur spielt der Vampir weiterhin eine Rolle, wenn das Sujet auch bis Anne RicesInterview With the Vampire(1976) und - im Bereich der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur - Angela Sommer-Bodenburgs Der kleine Vampir(1979) warten muss, bis es einen neuen Höhepunkt erreicht. Diesem Themenkomplex ist das abschließende Kapitel gewidmet, das die Betrachtung des Vampirmotives abrunden soll. 1 Pütz, Susanne: Vampire und ihre Opfer, Bielefeld, 1992, S. 29.
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Horror & ghost storiesNovember 2012Gladiators vs Zombies
by Sean-Michael Argo
The Gods of the Arena and the Walking Dead clash in this thrilling 'sword & sandal' zombie apocalypse. Lanista Laeca is the master of a gladiator school in Rome that has fallen on hard times. His business of providing skilled fighters for the Coliseum has begun to fail, and he is desperate to find a new spectacle of glory and battle to please the bloodthirsty crowds. He finds his answer in the cannibal corpse creatures brought to him from a distant land by a retired soldier, and soon the gladiators of House Laeca are being pitted against ravenous beasts that once were men. Will sword and shield win victory over tooth and claw?
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AdventureNovember 2013Wasteland Survival Guide
by Sean-Michael Argo
Shoot first. Fight dirty. Get paid. Bronco is a gunslinging wastelander of dubious moral character & questionable sanity... and he is here to show you how to survive and thrive in the strangest of futures. This guide contains useful information on a variety of topics such as scavenging tactics, guns & ammo, dystopian societies, psycho mutants, bloodthirsty cannibals, and radiation zombies. Get ready for tall tales of gratuitous violence, misguided heroism, foul language, rampant hedonism, and heavy doses of gallows humor in this bizzaro take on the post-apocalypse.
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Biography & True StoriesSeptember 2022The Atlas of True Crime
A Worldwide Guide to Murderers & Thieves, Kidnappers & Con Men
by Nancy J. Hajeski
Explore the wicked world of true crime, the murderers, kidnappers, mobsters, drug cartel bosses, big-league theives and con artists who kill without conscience or who break the law for a living. From the renigade outlaws of America's Wild West to the "goodfellas" of organized crime syndicates, this book traces the rise of crime over the past two centuries. You will come face to face with the ultimage predators–serial killers, spree killers, and cannibals–as well as history's most dastardly kidnappers and immoral thieves. In addition, you will learn about th evolving technologies of the forensic science and criminal profileing.
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IMAGES OF WOMEN IN THE MODERN WEST
by Isabelle Anchieta
Images of Women in the Modern West is a trilogy authored by the sociologist Isabelle Anchieta. The author traces the process of humanization and individualization of women through images, from the end of the Middle Ages to the Modern. The result of eight years of field research in various countries, the work is divided into three volumes. The first establishes a dialogue between the images of the witches of the Middle Ages and those of the Indian Tupinambas cannibals; the second focuses on the different representations of Maria and Maria Magdalena; the last volume explores the transgressions of Hollywood stars. The works feature presentations by historian Lilia Schwarcz, sociologist Maria Arminda do Nascimento Arruda, and anthropologist Máximo Canevacci.
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Literary essaysOctober 2018The Painter Devouring the Female Nude
by Kamel Daoud
One of the greatest Arabic writers revisits the theme of nudes, desire and women. Kamel Daoud spent a night alone in the Picasso Museum, a singular experience that inspired him to write this essay in which he juxtaposes the image of a female nude with the painter and a Jihadist. To Picasso, a woman was a body that could be truly captured only in terms of desire and erotic associations. The nude is also like a self-portrait imprinted on his subject’s flesh. In fact, she devours him, like a cannibal. But how does a Jihadist view this painting? In his view, the woman painted by Picasso is a scandalous anticipation of dream woman who awaits him in paradise, when he dies. She therefore incites disobedience and sin. For the former, she evokes dying of desire. For the latter, killing desire itself or dying in order to satisfy it.
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Travel & TransportA Ladies Drink
Caribbean Chronicles Loaded with Rum, Rum, Rum…
by Arantza Prádanos
The Caribbean is seen differently far from the deckchairs. With a backpack over the shoulder, one has to deal with crazy drivers, Zika mosquitoes and many other genres of pests. And since every trip needs a beacon and a guide, why not rum? Omnipresent, self-defining, distilled with blood and black tears, seasoned in the seven seas as a drink for sea dogs. Spanish, English, French, Dutch... Each and every one of these Caribbean Islands claims to be the homeland of the best rum.This book follows sugarcane’s trail, the slimy imprint of slavery through old haciendas, plantations, distilleries, and bars. Along the way, the remains of glory and decadence of an empire on which the sun never set crosses paths with Treasure Island and Moby Dick, Horace Nelson’s mortuary vat, as well as that of cannibals and pirates in the New World.
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RomanceAugust 2015Bring Me to Life
by Kert, August
Plan to survive: befriend a monster. Not in the plan: falling in love with him. As one of the few humans left alive, Lyric knows a hundred different ways to survive—none of them pretty. Anything to stay out of the “farms” where the not-so-mindless zombies keep humans they eat to prevent themselves from rotting. But humans have to eat too. While foraging for food, she’s captured and taken to a farm. Her fate seems sealed—until she notices one of the zombies watching her with a different kind of hunger in his eyes. Anson clings to the hope that he can somehow overcome the disease that turned him into a cannibal. Lyric stirs needs and desires he’s forgotten he had, and her fighting spirit brings back the ragged edge of a past that long ago slipped from his memory. When Anson offers moments of freedom in exchange for her help, Lyric grabs the chance to survive. She never thought her emotions would cast a very different light on the monster…or that desire would complicate her plan to escape. Warning: Contains a hopeless romantic zombie trying to find his humanity, and a plucky heroine desperate for a way out—even if it’s down a zombie’s pants. Not for the faint of heart…or the squeamish. Let’s just say kissing is off the menu.
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Science & MathematicsFROM GENES TO STARS AND BEYOND
by SAŠO DOLENC
Golden Pear Mark of Quality! Cannibals, Insomnia, and Mad Cows, How a Surfer Won a Nobel Prize, and The Story of 2550 Litres of Powdered Urine are just three chapter titles that promise that the author’s continuation of his highly popular first book, a huge hit with readers of all ages, will teach us something new about our environment and ourselves through fascinating anecdotes from the world of science, and provide immense entertainment in the process. Continuing the exciting journey begun in FROM GENES TO STARS, this book brings amazing new stories from the world of science, in which you will learn, among other things, how scientists photographed an environment, how they observed the birth of a new language in real time, what they did with 2550 litres of powdered urine, and also that Nobel laureates know how to surf and they sometimes solve the most difficult problems while on holiday. Enriched with illustrations by Matija Medved, the stories also reveal how the internet and blockchain work and how cholera epidemics were contained in London using a ghost map; you will meet a man who counted to infinity, mysterious creatures from the depths of the sea, a pioneer of science in Slovenia and the combination of circumstances that allowed the Archimedes Codex to be preserved to this day. Year of publication: 2019 | Format: 13 x 23.5 cm, 168 pages Golden Pear Mark of Quality
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March 2019The True Story
of the sad clown Federico, beautiful witch Nadira from Luneburg and the evil gnome Rumpelstiltskin
by Anton Soya, Oksana Baturina
A romantic story in Tim Burton style about how two lonely hearts have met. (A modern fairy tale, romantic-ironic teenage horror, 12+) Federico - a small clown, the prince of a travelling freaks’ circus, the one who meets his fifteenth’s birthday in a circus wagon while travelling around the world. His friends are the artists of the Rafinelli Circus: an aged trapeze gymnast Snow White with her inseparable gnomes, a two-headed trainer, vegetarian tigers, a tattooed elephant and a human worm. His strongmen parents are both monsters and clowns. Boom, the owner of circus is a cannibal, and Beam his wife a bearded woman. They love so much their son, but in a very specific way. Federico's life is a never-ending nightmare with continuous falls, since his talent and role are funny unexpected falls in the ring. He would have run away from the parents’ circus a long time ago, but where to hide? Who needs a boy as bald as a knee with a nose like a tomato? Federico had got used to his miserable life, but one day everything changed. In Luneburg, where rickety houses stand on a hill above holes in the rock created by greedy townspeople taking away rock salt, Federico will meet his love: a strange girl Nadira with a pirate bandage over her eye, considered by everyone in the city to be a witch. Nadira will stretch out her hand to Federico calling him her prince. But one by one, like sharp mountain peaks, in the path of their love there grow up barriers that they must overcome together. And it is not only the terrible parents of Federico and the accidental death of Nadira's neighbour for which everyone blamed this strange girl. Together with other circus artists they must fight in an abandoned cemetery with the dead army of the gnome Rumpelstiltskin, whither destiny has brought our tireless heroes after a terrible accident. There will be a battle, there will be losses (Federico becomes an orphan), and there will be surprises: victory, capture of the main vilain and the magic fulfilment of their desires. And, of course, there will be a fine new circus in Luneburg belonging to Federico Rafinelli and his… in all respects disastrous speech in Luneburg, during which the "respectable" public will be sent to hell together with their beloved Beam and Boom, summoned by them from hell itself! Are you scared? Don’t be afraid! Everything will end well! It’s just a fairy tale, although it's also completely modern.
