http://www.neatorama.com/2008/06/03/the-original-american-cannibal/
http://books.google.com/books?id=vIZ7bFBjV0YC&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=mountain+man+cannibal&source=web&ots=bLItEmJTzO&sig=lXyw1heJxTIsjzfUa1mAkCWfaMs&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA152,M1
And a good appetite to all.
At 04:35 PM 10/22/2008, you wrote:
>Wasn't there cannibalism in the US on a wagon train? That's right, the
>Donner Party (almost wrote the Doner [kebab] party hey ho). According
>to the wiki, there was quite a lot of cannibalism on that journey.
>
>I also seem to recall tales of cannibalism on the Klondike gold rush.
>Or maybe I'm confusing it with the cannibalism in the film The Gold
>Rush. No,
>
>http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9C0DE2D71438E733A25750C0A9619C94689ED7CF
>
>Roger
>
>On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:07 AM, ROBIN HAMILTON
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> Is everybody saying that they think Lec _isn't_ referring to deeply
> >> suntanned cannibals who live in primitive societies outside the ken of
> >> us civilised types? Ie, that it's totally incongruous, and therefore
> >> very funny, to imagine Hannibal Lecter with a knife and fork? What's
> >> the point about "progress", then?
> >
> > It's stereotyping rather than racism, like the how many
> Irishmen/Poles does it take to change a lightbulb? jokes, or mean
> caber-tossing Scotsmen in kilts.
> >
> > I'd guess that the majority of cannibalism jokes turn on educated
> black cannibals cooking Presbyterian Scottish missionaries.
> >
> > But then, as a Scot, I'm lumbered with the heritage of Sawney
> Bean (and let's not go into the intra-Scottish spin which has
> anyone north of the Highland Line who speaks gaelic notorious for
> eating their living young).
> >
> > Sawney Bean, allegedly flourishing in the time of Jimmy the Sixth
> and One is -- despite one's feelings that anyone from Morningside
> is capable of anything -- a load of tosh, and emblematically hymned
> by the laird of the Kailyard, S.R.Crockett, in _The Grey Man_.
> >
> > Sweeney Todd (who first appears in _The String of Pearls_ in
> 1846) is simply an avatar of S. Been, as is Hannibal Lector.
> >
> > One of the recent moments of such alleged cannibalism to surface
> is in a novel by Christopher Brookmyre.
> >
> > Comes down to it, there seems to be a stronger association of
> cannibalism with Scotland than any other place in the ever-living universe.
> >
> > R. Scotsman
> >
> > (I would add that setting Sweeney's pie-shop in London rather
> than Edinburgh is as transparent, and for equally commercial
> purposes, as relocating Jekyll&Hyde. R.)
> >
>
>
>
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