From Cannibalism to Genocide
The Work of Denial
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3457587 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gillian Gillison (Gillian Gillison is Associate Professor of Religion, University of Toronto. She is the author of Between Culture and Fantasy: A New Guinea Highlands Mythology (Chicago, 1993)., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 395-414 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/jinh.2007.37.3.395 |
| OpenAlex | W2062823511 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
In Cannibal Talk, Gananath Obeyesekere sets out to expose cannibalism as racist slander and anthropologists' perpetuation of a mistaken sense of "identity." In the very act of denying its existence, however, he employs it as sheep's clothing for the beast of genocide and other atrocities, implying that they, too, can be classified as slander or treated as aberrations outside the bounds of social rules or analysis. In claiming to deconstruct centuries of falsehood and defamation, Obeyesekere paradoxically opens the door to revising real crimes-the global horrors that he compares with cannibalism-lending them the same aura of unreality
Cannibalism · Denial · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |