This Horrid Practice
'Though stronger evidence of this horrid practice prevailing among the inhabitants of this coast will scarcely be required, we have still stronger to give.' - Captain James Cook This Horrid Practice uncovers an unexplored taboo of New Zealand history - the widespread practice of cannibalism in pre-European Maori society. Until now, many historians have tried to avoid it and many Maori have considered it a subject best kept quiet about in public. Paul Moon brings together an impressive array of sources from a variety of disciplines to produce this frequently contentious but always stimulating exploration of how and why Maori ate other human beings, and why the practice shuddered to a halt just a few decades after the arrival of Europeans in New Zealand. The book includes a comprehensive survey of cannibalism practices among traditional Maori, carefully assessing the evidence and concluding it was widespread. Other chapters look at how explorers and missionaries saw the practice; the role of missionaries and Christianity in its end; and, in the final chapter, why there has been so much denial on the subject and why some academics still deny that it ever happened. This Horrid Practice promises to be one of the leading works of New Zealand history published in 2008. It is a highly original work that every New Zealand history enthusiast will want to own and read.
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Contents
INTRODUCTION
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Glossary
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POPULAR CANNIBALISM
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Footprints
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A Modest Proposal
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I Restrained My Resentment
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Frightful Tales
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Fe Fi Fo Fum
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Just An Appetite?
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Rage Against the Body
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In the Blood
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Emotional Insensitivity or Moral Transgression?
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Ideological Cannibalism
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The Autopsy
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ABOLITION
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Abolition Immediately
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PORTRAITS OF MAORI CANNIBALISM
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Standards of Evidence
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The Oral Legacy
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The Stuff of Legends
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Cooks First Visit
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A French Connection
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A People Who Show So Much Friendship For Me
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Thoughtful Encounters
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The Experiment
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Cannibal Cove
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The Boyd
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Hidden Rites
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The Curtain Closes
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In the Hands of Cannibals
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Revival
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The Archaeological Imprint
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Case Closed
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AN ANATOMY OF MAORI CANNIBALISM
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The Cannibal and the Kumara
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Deaths Permanent Aggression
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Ordering Cannibalism
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Unfinished Sublimation?
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The Evolution of Symbolic Cannibalism in Maori Society
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Shame
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The Hope of Abolition
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Official Participation
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No New Performance
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Success?
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THE REVISIONIST APOSTASY
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Who Are the Cannibals?
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A Method in the Madness
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Propaganda Cannibalism
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The Cannibal Conspiracy
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The Willingness to Disclose Cultural Traits
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A South Pacific Allegory
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Dual Standards of Evidence
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Personal All Too Personal
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PROOF POSITIVE
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ENDNOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Other editions - View all
This Horrid Practice: The Myth and Reality of Traditional Maori Cannibalism Paul Moon No preview available - 2008 |
Common terms and phrases
accounts of cannibalism accounts of Maori act of cannibalism Adventures Anthropology archaeological Archaeology Auckland Barber battle Bay of Islands body British cannibal activity Captain chap Chapter chief civilisation Colonial Cook’s crew Crusoe custom death devoured Dumont d’Urville Dunedin Earle early eaten eating human flesh eighteenth enemies Epigenetics European evidence example explorers feast hapu Hongi human bones hunger Ibid J. R. Elder J. S. Polack Journals of Samuel Letters and Journals London Maori cannibalism Maori communities Maori culture Maori society Maori war Marion du Fresne Mascarin meat missionaries moral Myth Narrative natives Nga Puhi Ngati nineteenth century Noble Savage non-European North Island Obeyesekere observed oral histories perpetrators popular practice of cannibalism pre-European Maori R. A. Cruise reason Record of Maori reference to cannibalism revenge rites ritual Sagan Samuel Marsden ship slain social sort stories Tohunga traditional Maori society tribe Tuhoe Voyage Wellington Whangaroa York Zealand