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... Staden , a shipwrecked German naval gunner who was taken captive by the Tupinamba Indians of Brazil . Staden spent nine months in 1554 in a Tupinamba village before escaping and making his way back to Europe . What Staden saw with his ...
... Staden , a shipwrecked German naval gunner who was taken captive by the Tupinamba Indians of Brazil . Staden spent nine months in 1554 in a Tupinamba village before escaping and making his way back to Europe . What Staden saw with his ...
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... Staden's description is truthful . In his popular book , The Man - Eating Myth , anthropologist Wil- liam Arens claims that Staden's account , like all other accounts of cannibalism ( except for emergency cannibalism ) is a tall tale ...
... Staden's description is truthful . In his popular book , The Man - Eating Myth , anthropologist Wil- liam Arens claims that Staden's account , like all other accounts of cannibalism ( except for emergency cannibalism ) is a tall tale ...
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... Staden was in fact a member of an expedition led by the Spanish captain Diego de Sanabria , which set sail from Seville in the spring of 1549. Two of the expedition's three ships made it to a Brazilian harbor near modern - day ...
... Staden was in fact a member of an expedition led by the Spanish captain Diego de Sanabria , which set sail from Seville in the spring of 1549. Two of the expedition's three ships made it to a Brazilian harbor near modern - day ...
Contents
ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 13 |
TWO Meat Hunger | 19 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
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