InTaming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing ...savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet the "civilizing mission" was viewed as the ultimate justification for imperialism. Similarly, the supposedly unshakeable certainty of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority was routinely undercut by widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with "lesser" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior-an even "fitter" or "higher" race or species.
Brantlinger traces the development of those fears through close readings of a wide range of texts-includingRobinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe,Fiji and the Fijiansby Thomas Williams,Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmaniansby James Bonwick,The Descent of Manby Charles Darwin,Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad,Culture and Anarchyby Matthew Arnold,Sheby H. Rider Haggard, andThe War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells. Throughout the wide-ranging, capacious, and richTaming Cannibals, Brantlinger combines the study of literature with sociopolitical history and postcolonial theory in novel ways.
By use of a nonlinear stage-structured population model the role of cannibalism and the combined role of cannibalism and harvest have been explored. Regarding the model, we prove that in most parts ...of parameter space it is permanent. We also show that the transfer from stability to nonstationary dynamics always occurs when the unique stable equilibrium undergoes a supercritical Neimark-Sacker (Hopf) bifurcation. Moreover, the dynamic consequences of catch depend not only on which part of the population (immature or mature) is exposed to increased harvest pressure but also on which part of the immature population (newborns, older immature individuals) suffers from cannibalism. Indeed, if only newborns are exposed to cannibalism an enlargement of harvest pressure on the mature part of the population may act in a stabilizing fashion. On the other hand, whenever the whole immature population is exposed to cannibalism there are parts in parameter space where increased harvest on the mature population acts in a destabilizing fashion.
The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of ...Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine cannibals and related horrible stories of shipwrecked travelers eating each other. An Intellectual History of Cannibalism is the first book to systematically examine the role of the cannibal in the arguments of philosophers, from the classical period to modern disputes about such wide-ranging issues as vegetarianism and the right to private property.
Archaeological studies of human cannibalism and its causes have never lacked controversy. The reasons for this are both the difficulties in identifying cannibalism and the inherent complexity, by the ...many nuances that can have the behaviour of eating other humans. After Turner's detailed studies in the Southwestern USA, reports were published in the 1990s of cannibalism during European prehistory. Archaeological sites identified with cannibalism have been found that date from the early Pleistocene to the Iron Age. In this study, we review data from Western Europe's prehistoric sites, which allow us to discuss the various labels that accompany interpretations of cannibalism. The most common interpretation is not ritual but is rather gastronomic, nutritional or dietary. However, there is no agreement on this interpretation. Following the data review, we propose dividing cannibalism into the following broad, objective and useful categories: exocannibalism, endocannibalism and survival cannibalism, although it is not always easy to choose one option. We also review the taphonomic characteristics of these assemblages, which enable us to establish the most common taphonomic markers of prehistoric cannibalism. These features include abundant anthropogenic modifications (on more than of 20 % of human remains), the intensive processing of bodies, greater abundance of cut marks related to defleshing and filleting that dismembering and the presence of human tooth marks or chewing marks.
Cannibalism is one of the major issues causing mortality in the Asian seabass Lates calcarifer nursery phase. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of stocking density and background ...colour of rearing tanks on the growth performance, cannibalism and the survival of the Asian seabass fry in a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS). The Asian seabass fry was reared in white and black tanks at three stocking densities of 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 individuals/L for 45 days. The initial body weight of the Asian seabass fry was 0.25 ± 0.00 g, and the total body length was 2.50 ± 0.00 cm. The weight gain, specific growth rate and fish survival were negatively correlated with stocking density, whereas overall yield was higher in higher stocking density. White colour tanks achieved better growth performance (weight gain, specific growth rate, yield, mortality and survival) than black tanks achieved except for cannibalism. There were significant interaction effects between stocking density and tank colour on weight gain, specific growth rate, feed conversion ratio, yield, the type‐1 cannibalism, mortality and survival. The study concludes that the Asian seabass fry reared at a stocking density of 0.5 individual/L grows better than the stocking density of 1.0 and 1.5 individuals/L in the RAS and black tanks should be avoided for nursery rearing.
ABSTRACT - The Cannibalism of Usina do Trabalho do Ator - This text conjugates the rapprochement between the theatricality of Eastern manifestations and the practice of Usina do Trabalho do Ator ...(UTA) Research Group. Na visao de Schechner, a Arte Poética de Aristóteles, escrita cem anos após a época da grande tragédia grega, é um texto lacônico que nao descreve as performances reais, trata apenas do drama, nao do teatro, trazendo em seu texto o caráter histórico sobre o que a tragédia foi, e, a partir do modelo de Édipo Rei, de Sófocles, acaba por normatizar o gé- nero no futuro. Tomando como base a obra Lendas do Sul, de Simöes Lopes Neto, numa montagem que podia ser apresentada tanto na rua como nos palcos, sua principal lin- guagem era a dança. Enfim, pela alegria que se presentifica nos espetáculos da Usina, as propostas parecem congregar vários dos espec- tadores imaginários aos quais Eugenio Barba faz referência em seu texto O espaço interno (2008), que dialogam com ele durante o processo de concepçao da cena teatral, procurando envolver a criança que ainda nao tem capacidade de abstraçao, o espectador surdo que capta o visual do espetáculo, o cego que percebe o espaço por meio do silêncio e da voz.
Shakespearean cultures are the ones whose self-definition heavily relies on the determination of a foreigner’s gaze, their self-perception originates in the gaze of an Other. Thus, in such ...circumstance, the centrality of the other demands the prominence of the mimetic impulse in the shaping of national identity, which cannot but evoke a paradoxical constellation, based upon a constant oscillation between the own and the foreigner.
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