Man-eating monsters : anthropocentrism and popular culture

• Other Authors: Khapaeva, Dina, (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Series: Emerald studies in death and culture.
• Subjects: Monsters in popular culture.; Cannibalism > Social aspects.; Monsters > Social aspects.; Animal rights.; Social Science > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787695276 (e-book); 9781787695290 (ePUB)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 117 pages) ; cm.

What role do man-eating monsters - vampires, zombies, werewolves and cannibals - play in contemporary culture? This book explores the question of whether recent representations of humans as food in popular culture characterizes a unique moment in Western cultural history and suggests a new set of at...