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There Is no Smoke without Fire: Cannibalism, Source Criticism, and a Famous Anthropological Controversy

par Vandenberg, Vincent ;Laurent, Marie-Aline
Référence Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 95, page (537-554)
Publication Publié, 2018

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Our contribution to this volume owes much to the demanding methodological standards many of us learnt at Alain Dierkens’s side. We focus here on the mistaken use of source criticism in a famous anthropological controversy about the reality of the customary practice of cannibalism. By taking into account the old and deep-rooted Western fascination for cannibalism, we highlight common mistakes in the treatment of cannibalism-related historical material.