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Boekhandel Douwes Den Haag

Brazilian Amerindian Cannibalism and the Making of the Eternal Body

A Jungian Perspective

PhD Cunha

Brazilian Amerindian Cannibalism and the Making of the Eternal Body

Brazilian Amerindian Cannibalism and the Making of the Eternal Body

A Jungian Perspective

Brazilian Amerindian Cannibalism and the Making of the Eternal Body

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Drawing on extensive research into archaic Amerindian communities, this book presents a revolutionary thesis: Tupinambá cannibalism was not primarily about absorbing the qualities of the consumed enemy, but rather served as a sacred pathway toward constructing an eternal, incorruptible body.

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Drawing on extensive research into archaic Amerindian communities, this book presents a revolutionary thesis: Tupinambá cannibalism was not primarily about absorbing the qualities of the consumed enemy, but rather served as a sacred pathway toward constructing an eternal, incorruptible body.

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266
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