LEADER 03247nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910956311803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613921635 010 $a9781283609180 010 $a1283609185 010 $a9780252092787 010 $a0252092783 035 $a(CKB)2670000000242445 035 $a(EBL)3414097 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000738661 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11974261 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000738661 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10790556 035 $a(PQKB)10655314 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3414097 035 $a(OCoLC)815477944 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23895 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3414097 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10603892 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL392163 035 $a(OCoLC)923495727 035 $a(Perlego)2383106 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000242445 100 $a20031023d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOur cannibals, ourselves /$fPriscilla L. Walton 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aUrbana $cUniversity of Illinois Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (185 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780252029257 311 08$a0252029259 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [161]-169) and index. 327 $a"Donner, party of fifty!" -- The body politic -- "I want to bite your neck" -- Dog eat dog : mad cow disease -- Diet disorders -- "If you love someone, hunt them down and kill them" -- Cannibal culture. 330 8 $aWhy does Western culture remain fascinated with and saturated by cannibalism? Moving from the idea of the dangerous Other, Priscilla L. Walton's Our Cannibals, Ourselves shows us how modern-day cannibalism has been recaptured as in the vampire story, resurrected into the human blood stream, and mutated into the theory of germs through AIDS, Ebola, and the like. At the same time, it has expanded to encompass the workings of entire economic systems (such as in "consumer cannnibalism"). Our Cannibals, Ourselves is an interdisciplinary study of cannibalism in contemporary culture. It demonstrates how what we take for today's ordinary culture is imaginatively and historically rooted in very powerful processes of the encounter between our own and different, often "threatening, " cultures from around the world. Walton shows that the taboo on cannibalism is heavily reinforced only partly out of fear of cannibals themselves; instead, cannibalism is evoked in order to use fear for other purposes, including the sale of fear entertainment.Ranging from literature to popular journalism, film, television, and discourses on disease, Our Cannibals, Ourselves provides an all-encompassing, insightful meditation on what happens to popular culture when it goes global. 606 $aCannibalism 606 $aPopular culture 615 0$aCannibalism. 615 0$aPopular culture. 676 $a394/.9 700 $aWalton$b Priscilla L$01812492 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956311803321 996 $aOur cannibals, ourselves$94364937 997 $aUNINA