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A Generous Quantity of Fat

Paul Henley

  • Man Corn: Cannibalism and Violence in the Prehistoric American South-West by Christy Turner and Jacqueline Turner
  • Cannibalism and the Colonial World edited by Francis Barker and Peter Hulme
  • Cannibals: The Discovery and Representation of the Cannibal from Columbus to Jules Verne by Frank Lestringant, translated by Rosemary Morris
  • Chronicles of the Guayakí Indians by Pierre Clastres, translated by Paul Auster

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Paul Henley is a professor of visual anthropology at the Granada Centre, University of Manchester. He is currently writing a study of ethnographic documentary-making.

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