Cannibal Tours Analysis

Cannibalism: It Still Exists By: Linh Kieu Ngo and Love: The Right Chemistry By: Anastasia Toufelis are the two selections assigned to go with the concept essay. In the Cannibalism essay author Ngo explains a different side of cannibalism. The side of cannibalism that is practiced for dietary reasons, ceremonial purposes, and survival. Toufexis’ essay on love talks about the “physical” more chemical and biological aspect of love, relationships, and romance. It delves into the comical explanation for passion and why people fall in love.

The article "Of the Cannibals" from Michel Eyquem de Montaigne speaks about two major problems. The first one is the problem of men telling stories subjectively instead of objectively. This problem is dealt with only in very short and there is no real solution presented in the essay. The other problem is men calling others barbarous just because they are different. The essay also deals with the word "barbarism" and what can be meant by that.

The author, Basil Johnston, is trying to portray the connection between a mythical story from the Aboriginals and the way we are destroying the environment today, from his article Modern Cannibals of the Wilds, written in 1991. Johnston begins his article by telling a story about a habitat filled with many different species such as: fish, birds, insects and other wildlife. Then, Johnston continues to introduce a cannibalistic mythical creature called weendigoes, who feed on human flesh to try to satisfy his never-ending hunger. After Johnston introduces the mythical weendigoes, he transitions into introducing the modern weendigoes who care reincarnated as humans, depicted as industries, corporations and multinationals who dwells on wealth

On a “Trip to Congo” Sir Richard F. Burton writes a story during his exploration to the Yellalla or Cataracts of the Congo leaving some detail insights of the customs and behavior of the African communities. He only gives his point of view from an imperialist position and sometimes denigrates and diminishes the people and their culture. Even though Burton had a translator throughout his trip the language barrier prohibits interaction with the communities and the ability to empathize with the natives. Interaction and understanding is the key to appreciate their behaviors, instead Burton

The way we perceive topics taught to us is different as you vary from student to student. Add in the fact that we’re a large university with almost thirty thousand students, where students from high schools from all over the US come to study. Something they have in common is that in those students high school history classes, they were taught that slavery was a terrible institution where slaves across the country suffered greatly. As we go through the first chapter of George Fitzhugh’s “Cannibals All” and William Lloyd Garrison’s “Address to the American Colonization Society, for the first time for many, the college students get to look at the accounts of two different men and get an insight to the thoughts of the people at the time beyond the history book. George Fitzhugh’s “Cannibals All” and William Lloyd Garrison’s “Address to the American Colonization Society are two very different accounts, and they show their similarities and differences through the way they express themselves, their divergent voices and the way they both compare in the metaphor of cannibalism.

During the study, the renowned anthropologist uses the local lingua franca “Neo-Melanesian” to collect his data from the Imbonggu villages. At first, the Wormsley finds himself as an object of competition as different communities wanted to stay with him. The men thought that Wormsley had come to collect the "head tax”, one of the renowned colonial payments that were subjected to men based on the number of women. In these communities, the author observes the culture of both men and women to collect his data. He notes how men are engaged in war, religion and politics (Wormsley, 1993). Women, on the other

“Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa” by Charles Piot is a book based on the lives of the people of the remote village called Kabre located in Northern Togo. The author discusses the “vernacular modernity” of the people of Kabre village that has been influenced by a long tradition of encounters with outsiders that included the colonialists. The author provides an in-depth analysis with ethnographic details about the Kabre people as the author discusses a wide range of their culture and history that included houses and the structure of homestead, gender ideology, ritual like initiations, exchange system, and social relations (Piot 178).

In Chapter 2 of the book, the Prices eat some stew that the natives have made as a welcome to their village. Although the food is not appetizing, they must eat it in respect to demonstrate that they accept the

There are so many bad things in the world but according to many, cannibalism is considered just about the worst. Depending on your point of view, it rises above even such criminal abominations as, rape and genocide. Then again, we live in a culture, in which people would run vomiting to the bathroom if they saw what went into making their McDonald's hamburgers.

Comparably, Ooka Shohei also utilizes theatrical effects in his story as a tool to convey unconventional themes such as cannibalism that happened among Japanese troops oversea. Ooka is a survivor-author with personal experience of war’s dehumanizing nature when he was drafted abroad to the Philippines during the Pacific War. Thus, his work, “Fire on the Plain,” which serves the therapeutic purpose as Ooka recovered from wartime trauma, is somewhat based on his direct experiences. However, the book reads more like a fictional account of the war by focusing on the psychological turmoil. When working on provoking readers’ sympathy with the agony suffered by Japanese soldiers stranded in an unfamiliar land, Ooka has to overcome the problem of possibly

Laura Mulvey’s theory is built on the concept of there being pleasure in looking. This manifests itself in two ways. The first is scopophilia, “in which looking itself is a source of pleasure” (Mulvey, p. 713). This sort of looking is active looking, and makes whatever is being looked at passive, receiving the gaze. The second way that this visual pleasure manifests itself is in its narcissistic form, which is to derive pleasure through the act of identification with the image seen. The image seen is a more perfect version of the spectator, making it pleasurable for the spectator to identify with them, to live

“The Ones That Are Wanted”, comes from an expression used by an Okiek elder examining Corinne Kratz’s photographs, to describe his people living in Kenya’s western highlands. This book follows Kratz’s travelling exhibition of anthropological photographs produced with the purpose to dissect the complexities that surround cultural representation. She does so by telling a vivid story, which is emphasised through her use of photographs, description the Okiek life history, the reasons for her photographic exhibition from its start in the 1980’s, to its public release in 1989 at Nairobi’s National Museum in Kenya, which went on to be displayed in seven venues across the United States. The book is divided into two main sections, the first which examines the replication of her photographic exhibitions and the second which examines the museum exhibitions as “events, objects, and interactive processes” (Kratz, C. 2002: pg. 91), with the penultimate aim to challenge stereotypes which had developed in postcolonial societies of the Okiek people being “primitive”. To do this she uses a variety of interesting methods, which include interviews with visitors, the Okiek’s personal perspectives on her photographs, and numerous articles, papers and books which explore the scope of her exhibitions at each venue to help achieve her aim.

The anthropologist is the act or practice of humans or other species eating organs or the flesh of their own kind. Cannibalism has been a part of the human culture for so long and resurfacing in the recent decades. Cannibalism has been reportedly practiced by many different cultures in all continents on earth. Each of them has separate reasons to why they practiced it. It could be from psychosexual impulses, relief from stress or they just want to eat humans as food no more no less.

This article Modernity: Spectatorship, Power, and Knowledge is collected from the book Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture written by Marita Sturken, and Lisa Cartwright, published by Oxford University Press, 2001. In modern world an image is not a unleavened embodiment of reality, it is more than that, an image also combines power relations between individuals and institutions. The authors also claim that "the concept of spectatorship allows us to talk about this broader context in which looking is enacted in an interactive, multimodal, and rational field" (p-93). The notion of spectatorship also includes the concept of gaze, a rational activity of looking. In this article, the authors bring different ideas to query the

The book takes place in the Umuofia and Mbanta villages around the 1900s. During the 1900s the rise of European Imperialism in Africa becomes very much prevalent between 1881 and 1914.