CANNIBALISM 同類相食
CUSTOMARY RITUAL of EATING OTHER HUMANS.
Old Chinese Contrasts
KEY IDEA
The ritual consumption of humans by humans is archaeologically well documented at an early stage. Among mammals, man seems to be the only creature which developed this idea, and indeed not only kill each other on a vast scale but also to engage in ritual cannibalism.
LESTRINGANT 1997 the wildly distorting literary "reception history" of this phenomenon. PETTERSSON 1999 provides a useful sourcebook on Chinese official evidence. KEY RAY CHONG is the standard Chinese reference. ZHENG YI details the crucial phenomenon of modern political cannibalism.
The ritual consumption of humans by humans is archaeologically well documented at an early stage. Among mammals, man seems to be the only creature which developed this idea, and indeed not only kill each other on a vast scale but also to engage in ritual cannibalism.
LESTRINGANT 1997 the wildly distorting literary "reception history" of this phenomenon. PETTERSSON 1999 provides a useful sourcebook on Chinese official evidence. KEY RAY CHONG is the standard Chinese reference. ZHENG YI details the crucial phenomenon of modern political cannibalism.
- Cannibalism in China ( KEY RAY CHONG 1990) p.
- Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne ( LESTRINGANT 1997) p.
- Cannibalism in the Dynastic Histories
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PETTERSSON 1999)
p.
Lists two important papers on cannibalism in China by Robert de Rotours 1963 and 1968 in T'oungpao.
- Histoire des moeurs
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POIRIER 1991)
p.
3.459-499 - Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology ( BARNARD AND SPENCER 2002) p.
- New Dictiornary of the History of Ideas, 6 vols. ( HOROWITZ 2005) p.
Words
易子而食 yì zǐ ér shí OC: leɡ sklɯʔ njɯ ɢljɯɡ MC: jiɛk tsɨ ȵɨ ʑɨk 1 Attribution
- Syntactic words
- VPieat each other's children
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