To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction. “Cannibalism and...”
1. Rituals of Consumption: Cannibalism and Native American Oral Traditions in Southeastern North America
2. First Reports of New World Cannibalism in the Italian Mercantile and Diplomatic Correspondence
3. Sex and Cannibalism: The Politics of Carnal Relations between Europeans and American “Anthropophagites” in the Caribbean and Mexico
4. Spaniards, Cannibals, and the Eucharist in the New World
5. “And Greedily Deuoured Them”: The Cannibalism Discourse and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1536–1612
6. Imperial Appetites: Cannibalism and Early Modern Theatre
7. Retelling the Legend of Sawney Bean: Cannibalism in Eighteenth-Century England
8. Honor Eating: Frank Lestringant, Michel de Montaigne, and the Physics of Symbolic Exchange
9. Conspicuous Consumptions in Atlantic Africa: Andrew Battell’s Fearsome Tales of Hunger, Cannibalism, and Survival
10. “The Black People Were Not Good to Eat”: Cannibalism, Cooperation, and Hunger at Sea
Conclusion. Beyond Jamestown
Notes
Contributors
Index