Въобразеният канибал
The imagined cannibal

Summary/Abstract: The proposed text combines philosophical-anthropological approach with cultural studies analysis of a supposedly exotic and fascinating topic as the one about cannibals. The author follows the plot how the discovery of America by Columbus and his followers challenges the social prejudices and mental pictures of the Europeans towards a Newfound Land, which in a short period becomes a symbol of the radical Difference, of an existence beyond the boundary of the social perception. After the collapse of the identifi cation of the New World with a part of Eden, a new negative identifi cation appeared – the Europeans imagined this New World as a radically different, as a land of horror, sickness, hostility. Part of this process is the demonization of the indigenous population in the gradually built notion of cannibalism. The text explores exactly this social construction of the image of the Cannibal in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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