Accounts of Cannibalism, Human Sacrifice, Alcohol-Addiction and Filthiness among Northern Poeples

Bibliographic Data

ID3664932
AuthorsA Leete (0000-0002-5505-0043, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume50
Issue1-3
Pages241-258
Publication date2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueActa Ethnographica Hungarica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1216-9803 • E-ISSN: 1588-2586
PublisherAkademiai Kiado Zrt (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1556/aethn.50.2005.1-3.15
OpenAlexW2151064124
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This paper provides an overview of the extreme descriptions of northern peoples, including themes such as cannibalism, human sacrifice, alcohol-addiction and filthiness, in writings of the period from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. These depictions are indicative of cultural barriers, extreme stereotypes and ethnocentrism - all phenomena that were relatively acceptable in the research of that period. In the eighteenth-century accounts, the medieval images were dropped completely and a scientific approach was adopted in the studies of northern cultures. Development of radical accounts of northern peoples in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries should be examined in a wider context of the most influential philosophers of that period

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Cannibalism · Ethnic group · Ethnocentrism · Ethnology · Human sacrifice · Sacrifice · Sociology · Anthropology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Ecology

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