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Tannahill, Reay

FLESH AND BLOOD: A HISTORY OF THE CANNIBAL COMPLEX

Stein and Day New York (1975) 209pp 20 B&W ill. HC ISBN 0812817567 It has only been in the last two thousand years that the practice of eating your fellow man has ceased to be respectable. In the long history of cannabalism, hunger has been only one of the incentives that have led men to absorb other men's flesh and blood. Religion, revenge, justice, war, and an ineradicable belief in the symbolic value of flesh and blood have all played a part. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover)

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