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Accounts of Cannibalism, Human Sacrifice, Alcohol-Addiction and Filthiness among Northern Poeple
Accounts of Cannibalism, Human Sacrifice, Alcohol-Addiction and Filthiness among Northern Poeple

Author(s): Art Leete
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Ethnohistory, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Substance abuse and addiction
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: cannibalism; human sacrifice; alcohol-addiction; filthiness; northern peoples;

Summary/Abstract: This paper provides an overview of the extreme descriptions of northern peoples, including themes such as cannibalism, human sacrifice, alcohol-addiction and filthiness, in writings of the period from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. These depictions are indicative of cultural barriers, extreme stereotypes and ethnocentrism – all phenomena that were relatively acceptable in the research of that period. In the eighteenth-century accounts, the medieval images were dropped completely and a scientific approach was adopted in the studies of northern cultures. Development of radical accounts of northern peoples in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries should be examined in a wider context of the most influential philosophers of that period.

  • Issue Year: 50/2005
  • Issue No: 1-3
  • Page Range: 241-258
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English