Insatiable Appetites (Early American Places, 14)

In this comparative history of cross-cultural encounters in the early North Atlantic world, Kelly L. Watson argues that the persistent rumours of cannibalism surrounding Native Americans served a specific and practical purpose for European settlers. As they forged new identities and found ways to not only subdue but also co-exist with native peoples, the cannibal narrative helped to establish hierarchical categories of European superiority and Native inferiority upon which imperial power in the Americas was predicated.--Cover.

• | Author: Kelly L. Watson
• | Publisher: NYU Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 1479877654
• | ISBN-13: 9781479877652