Eat Thy Neighbour by Daniel Diehl

Eat Thy Neighbour by Daniel Diehl

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A lively and easily digestible account of cannibalism and cannibals from the earliest incidents through to the modern day.

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Eat Thy Neighbour by Daniel Diehl

Cannibalism is unquestionably one of the oldest and deepest-seated taboos. Even in an age when almost nothing is sacred, religious, moral and social prohibitions surround the topic. But even as our minds recoil at the mention of actual acts of cannibalism there is some dark fascination with the subject. Appalling crimes of humans eating other humans are blown into major news stories and gory movies: both Hitchcock's Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were based on the crimes of Ed Gein, who is profiled, along with others, in this book. In Eat Thy Neighbour the authors put the subject of cannibalism into its social and historical perspective.
DANIEL DIEHL and Mark P. Donnelly are social and cultural historians who have collaborated together on a number of books and television programmes, including the series Tales from the Tower on which their book is based. MARK P. DONNELLY and Daniel Diehl are social and cultural historians who have collaborated together on a number of books and television programmes, including the series Tales from the Tower on which their book is based.
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ISBN 13 9780750943727
ISBN 10 0750943726
Title Eat Thy Neighbour
Author Daniel Diehl
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher The History Press Ltd
Year published 2006-08-24
Number of pages 256
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