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Wednesday, March 02, 2005, 17:51

Disney-Film depicts indigenous people as involved in cannibalism

IPS

The producers of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" are eagerly gearing up to film the sequels. But the project, due to be released on Jul. 7, 2006, is already proving to be a problem, as the descendants of the Caribs, historians and others are objecting to scenes depicting these indigenous people as involved in cannibalism.

Brinsley Samaroo, head of the history department of the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), dismisses the claim of cannibalism as a "European myth". He told IPS that it was nothing but "manufactured history" by the Europeans who came across the Caniba, a tribe found in North and South America. "The Caniba tribe was very hostile and resisting the Europeans very stoutly and in order to warn other Europeans about this, the early explorers spread the myth that the Caniba tribe eat people," he said.

The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Historical and Archaeological Society has called on movie-goers to boycott the sequel unless the "grossly offensive" scenes depicting the Caribs as cannibals are removed from the script. >> continue

In the IPS-article, there's also an link to a Brief history of cannibal controversies


SEE ALSO:
We do not eat people (Trinidad News)

Comments:

Alex Golub, Thursday, March 03, 2005, 03:09

This is the best recent summary of the literature on cannibalism:

Shirley Lindenbaum 2003. THINKING ABOUT CANNIBALISM. Annual Review of Anthropology
Vol. 33: 475-498.

Lorenz, Friday, March 04, 2005, 10:35

Thanks! I'll have a look at it!

 

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