Böcker av Frank (University of Lille III Lestringant

This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.

This work provides an account of the existence of New World cannibalism and the images it conjured up for Europeans from the Renaissance to the 19th century. It describes the symbolic uses of cannibalism by authors, political theorists and theologians throughout the period.