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Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter 1. A Taxonomy of Cannibal Practices
Chapter 2. Slave Eating in New Zealand
Chapter 3. Slave Eating in the Bismarck Archipelago and Sumatra
Chapter 4. Ivory, Slavery, and Slave Eating in the Congo Basin
Chapter 5. The Roles of Arab-Swahili Merchants and the Congo Free State
Chapter 6. Understanding Congolese Slave Eating
Chapter 7. Commercial and Economic Aspects of Congolese Cannibalism
Chapter 8. Exploitation and Patriarchy in the Congo
Chapter 9. The Jameson Affair
Chapter 10. The Question of European Influences and the Obeyesekere Conjecture
Chapter 11. Foreigner Poaching in New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago
Chapter 12. Foreigner Poaching in Fiji and Central Africa
Chapter 13. The Trade in Human Flesh and in “Edible” Corpses
Chapter 14. Famine and Commercial Cannibalism in China
Chapter 15. Warfare and Culinary Cannibalism in China

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Edible People

The Historical Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Human Flesh

Christian Siefkes

392 pages, 20 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80073-613-9 Hb Published (September 2022)

eISBN 978-1-80073-614-6 eBook