Word: cannibalisme
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"I came up with the idea because I wanted to inquire why cannibal metaphors are so prevalent in contemporary society," Huggan explains. "And also I wanted to examine the status of cannibalism as cultural myth which has been used in the past to justify imperial conquest and more recently has...
"I'm less interested in cannibalism as the social practice than in the myth and how it functions in cultural and historical factors," he says. "For example, we might discuss how the myth and various metaphors that circle around the figure of the cannibal can be used to explore consumer...
As another example, Huggan cites the "apparent fascination with cannibals and how cannibalism is used as a method of articulating the current fears of the body."
But other students interviewed were not convinced the class succeeded in focusing on cannibalism as metaphor.
"The focus of the story isn't really the cannibalism as it is the fact as being a cannibal forces you to focus on people in a different way than normal, so it's [about] ways of seeing," she says.