Brooklyn & Give me Liberty or Give me Decadence?

Sun Mar 24 00:41:26 CST 2002

Dave Monroe wrote:
> Indeed, I might even have firsted it here.  

It was discussed first time round, but no matter.  

Maps New York 

http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/Jefferys.htm

http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/Montre.htm

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medny/trinity1.html

Cannibalism
Dickens was very interested in the subject. 

"Cannibalism is a difficult topic for an anthropologist to write about,
for it pushes the limits
  of cultural relativism, challenging one to define what is or is not
beyond the pale of
  acceptable human behavior," writes Beth Conklin in her new book,
Consuming Grief:
  Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society [University of Texas
Press].

http://exploration.vanderbilt.edu/news/news_cannibalism_pt2.htm

New Literary History 30.2, Spring 1999
Klarer, Mario, 1962-. 
Cannibalism and Carnivalesque: Incorporation as Utopia in the Early
Image
of America

http://loki.stockton.edu/~gilmorew/0colhis/vis8.jpg
http://loki.stockton.edu/~gilmorew/0colhis/amaz-89.htm

Abler, Thomas. 1980. Iroquois cannibalism: fact not fiction.
Ethnohistory. Volume 27, 309-316.
[cannibalism; North American Indian; Iroquois]

Arens, William. 1979. The man-eating myth: anthropology and
anthropophagy. [cannibalism]

Barker, Francis; Peter Hulme and Margaret Iversen. 1998. Cannibalism and
the colonial world.
Cambridge University Press. [cannibalism]

Binyan, Liu. 1993. An unnatural disaster. New York review of books.
Volume XI, No. 7, 3-6.
[review of Zheng Yi's book, A Part of History, and manuscript, Red
Memorial; cannibalism; famine;
China (1966 cultural revolution)]

Bishop, Charles. 1975. Northern Algonkian cannibalism and windigo
psychosis. IN Psychological
anthropology. T. Williams, editor. [famine; cannibalism; windigo; North
American Indians;
Algonkian]

Boucher, P.P. 1992. Cannibal encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs.
[history; cannibalism;
Caribbean]

Clastres, Pierre. 1998. Cannibals. The sciences. Volume 38, No. 3,
[cannibalism; meaning; South
America; Paraguay; Ache]

Conklin, Beth A. 2001. Consuming grief: compassionate cannibalism in an
Amazonian society.
University of Texas. [cannibalism; South America; Amazon; Wari]

Dornstreich, Mark and George E.B. Morren. 1974. Does New Guinea
cannibalism have nutritional
value? Human ecology. Volume 2, 1-12. [cannibalism; nutritional value;
Oceania; New Guinea]

Elgar, Mark A. and Bernard J. Crespi, editors. 1992. Cannibalism:
ecology and evolution among
diverse taxa. Oxford University Press. [animal behavior; cannibalism;
ecology; evolution]

Garn, Stanley M. 1979. The noneconomic nature of eating people. American
anthropologist. Volume
81, No. 902, 903. [cannibalism]

Goldman, Laurence. 1999. The anthropology of cannibalism. Bergin and
Garvey. [cannibalism;
symbolic meanings]

Harner, M. 1977. The ecological basis for Aztec sacrifice. American
ethnologist. Volume 4,
117-135. [cannibalism; ecology; Mesoamerica; Mexico; Aztec]

Harris, Marvin. 1998. Good to eat. Waveland. previously titled, The
sacred cow and the abominable
pig. [materialist theory; taboos; ecology; food system; meat eating;
cannibalism]

Harris, Marvin. 1985. The sacred cow and the abominable pig: riddles of
food and culture. Simon
and Schuster. originally titled and recently retitled, Good to eat.
[taboos; materialist theory; ecology;
cannibalism; meat-eating]

Lestringant, Frank. 1997. Cannibals: the discovery and representation of
the cannibal from Columbus
to Jules Verne. University of California Press. [cannibalism as symbol;
Europe]

Myers, Robert A. 1984. Island Carib cannibalism. Niewe West-Indische
Gids. Volume 158,
147-184. [cannibalism; Caribbean; Island Carib]

Petrinovich, Lewis. 2000. The cannibal within. Aldine de Gruyter.
[cannibalism; human evolution;
case materials]

Sahlins, Marshall. 1978. Culture as protein and profit. The New York
review of books. Volume 25,
No. 18, 45-53. [taboo; symbolism; cannibalism; Mesoamerica; Aztec]

Sanday, Peggy. 1986. Devine hunger. Cambridge University Press.
[cannibalism]

Shankman, Paul. 1969. Le roti et le bouilli: Levi-Strauss's theory of
cannibalism. American
anthropologist. Volume 71, 54-69. [structural theory; cannibalism]

Tannahill, Reay. 1996. Flesh and blood: a history of the cannibal
complex. Little, Brown and
Company. [cannibalism; history; religion and meaning]

Winkelman, Michael. 1998. Aztec human sacrifice: cross-cultural
assessments of the ecological
hypothesis. Ethnology. Volume 37, No. 3, 285. [cannibalism; North
America; Mexico; prehistoric;
Aztec]

Yue, Gang. 1999. The mouth that begs: hunger, cannibalism, and the
politics of eating in modern
china. Duke University Press. [food in literature; cannibalism; East
Asia; China]

Tale of a Tub
http://www.angelfire.com/punk2/themosquito/index51.tub.html

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tub.html

In a single paragraph in "A Tale of a Tub", Swift answers Johnson's
charge that he is shallow with
graphic satire reminiscent of "Modest Proposal". He compares reason to
the knife of a dissector, that
can get beneath the beauty seen by the senses only to reveal the
ugliness of the internal organs. His
persona illustrates this process by saying how he disrobed and cut open
the corpse of a beautiful
woman, finding more ugliness the further he got along in the process.
Optimistic philosophers, like
Epicures, who find good in man are only insanely believing what the
senses tell him without using
reason. But he also says that anyone who can "patch up the flaws and
imperfections of nature"with
reason rather than dig deeper into them would be doing humanity a great
service(2028-2029).
Perhaps this is what he thought he was doing with his work. 

In this work that points out that reason is a "very light rider" upon
the horse of humanity, Swift shows
a sympathy for the insane of his time, saying we are all insane in some
ways.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/4855/SWIFT.htm

http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/miller.htm