{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2000874924","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002079","title":"Island Carib cannibalism","display_name":"Island Carib cannibalism","publication_year":1984,"publication_date":"1984-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2000874924","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002079","mag":"2000874924"},"language":"de","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1163/13822373-90002079","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002079","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002079","pdf_url":"https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/nwig/58/3-4/article-p147_1.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S1020997206","display_name":"New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids","issn_l":"1382-2373","issn":["1382-2373","2213-4360"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["ddh","doaj","erih-plus","jufo-1","poland-20","russia-white-list-1"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320561","host_organization_name":"Brill","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320561","https://openalex.org/P4310313990"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Brill","De Gruyter"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by-nc","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by-nc","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref","doaj"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"hybrid","oa_url":"https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/nwig/58/3-4/article-p147_1.pdf","any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":null,"display_name":"Robert A. Myers","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Robert A. Myers","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":25,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.21084022,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":94},"biblio":{"volume":"58","issue":"3-4","first_page":"147","last_page":"184"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13302","display_name":"Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory","score":0.21610000729560852,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1202","display_name":"History"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13302","display_name":"Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory","score":0.21610000729560852,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1202","display_name":"History"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13222","display_name":"Caribbean history, culture, and politics","score":0.19689999520778656,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3316","display_name":"Cultural Studies"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14312","display_name":"Historical Studies in Central America","score":0.17499999701976776,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1202","display_name":"History"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/cannibalism","display_name":"cannibalism","score":0.949999988079071},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/ethnohistory","display_name":"ethnohistory","score":0.9459999799728394},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/spanish-conquest-of-the-americas","display_name":"Spanish conquest of the Americas","score":0.49000000953674316},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/indigenous-peoples-of-the-caribbean","display_name":"Caribbean indigenous peoples","score":0.4819999933242798},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/european-perceptions-of-indigenous-peoples","display_name":"European perceptions of indigenous peoples","score":0.47999998927116394},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/lesser-antilles","display_name":"Lesser Antilles","score":0.578000009059906}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C548578009","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44595","display_name":"Cannibalism","level":3,"score":0.7363289594650269},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C519517224","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12827256","display_name":"Mythology","level":2,"score":0.6697614789009094},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C18296254","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1395219","display_name":"Skepticism","level":2,"score":0.6278014779090881},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95457728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309","display_name":"History","level":0,"score":0.5246648788452148},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2549261","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43455","display_name":"Ethnology","level":1,"score":0.47872018814086914},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776372474","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508291","display_name":"Simplicity","level":2,"score":0.4540676474571228},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C136815107","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q154242","display_name":"Nothing","level":2,"score":0.4479871094226837},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777601897","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3409113","display_name":"Presentation (obstetrics)","level":2,"score":0.4255210757255554},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C19165224","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23404","display_name":"Anthropology","level":1,"score":0.39487528800964355},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C74916050","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q841090","display_name":"Classics","level":1,"score":0.35201579332351685},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144024400","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21201","display_name":"Sociology","level":0,"score":0.2901133894920349},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.266523540019989},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.24260810017585754},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C71924100","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11190","display_name":"Medicine","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C86803240","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q420","display_name":"Biology","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C173758957","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q129270","display_name":"Larva","level":2,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C59822182","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q441","display_name":"Botany","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C126838900","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77604","display_name":"Radiology","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1163/13822373-90002079","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002079","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002079","pdf_url":"https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/nwig/58/3-4/article-p147_1.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S1020997206","display_name":"New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids","issn_l":"1382-2373","issn":["1382-2373","2213-4360"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["ddh","doaj","erih-plus","jufo-1","poland-20","russia-white-list-1"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320561","host_organization_name":"Brill","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320561","https://openalex.org/P4310313990"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Brill","De Gruyter"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by-nc","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by-nc","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.1163/13822373-90002079","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002079","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002079","pdf_url":"https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/nwig/58/3-4/article-p147_1.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S1020997206","display_name":"New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids","issn_l":"1382-2373","issn":["1382-2373","2213-4360"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["ddh","doaj","erih-plus","jufo-1","poland-20","russia-white-list-1"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320561","host_organization_name":"Brill","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320561","https://openalex.org/P4310313990"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Brill","De Gruyter"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by-nc","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by-nc","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids","raw_type":"journal-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"sustainable_development_goals_aurora":[{"score":0.5799999833106995,"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/14","display_name":"Life below water"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":true,"pdf":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2000874924.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2000874924.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":34,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W95298474","https://openalex.org/W100332139","https://openalex.org/W205317138","https://openalex.org/W564192123","https://openalex.org/W583213043","https://openalex.org/W585661582","https://openalex.org/W623362709","https://openalex.org/W1491497282","https://openalex.org/W1506504144","https://openalex.org/W1593800176","https://openalex.org/W1966795221","https://openalex.org/W1969439923","https://openalex.org/W1974236938","https://openalex.org/W1987653683","https://openalex.org/W2007747952","https://openalex.org/W2038590505","https://openalex.org/W2042813918","https://openalex.org/W2054544221","https://openalex.org/W2093349624","https://openalex.org/W2333489848","https://openalex.org/W2333706627","https://openalex.org/W2583268572","https://openalex.org/W2917323315","https://openalex.org/W3120389399","https://openalex.org/W4255134038","https://openalex.org/W4256604329","https://openalex.org/W4299678337","https://openalex.org/W4300199503","https://openalex.org/W6600417373","https://openalex.org/W6608318268","https://openalex.org/W6640551463","https://openalex.org/W6657229138","https://openalex.org/W6844052662","https://openalex.org/W7015815308"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W7134656022","https://openalex.org/W7209724383","https://openalex.org/W4250753894","https://openalex.org/W4379804413","https://openalex.org/W852638385","https://openalex.org/W2159028911","https://openalex.org/W2071859377","https://openalex.org/W2997316932","https://openalex.org/W2083689997","https://openalex.org/W2141396268"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"In":[0],"The":[1],"Man-Eating":[2],"Myth":[3],",":[4,226],"William":[5],"Arens":[6],"questions":[7],"the":[8,82,93,97,100,107,112,122,141,149,152,154,160,173,178,183,194],"existence":[9],"of":[10,33,47,81,96,111,121,132,143,177,180,196],"customary":[11],"cannibalism":[48],"4":[13],"'as":[14],"an":[15,45,209],"accepted":[16,193],"practice":[17],"for":[18,124,172,208],"any":[19],"time":[20],"or":[21,30,187],"place":[22],"(1979:":[23,49],"9).":[24],"He":[25],"finds":[26],"no":[27],"satisfactory":[28],"documentation":[29],"sustained":[31],"ethnography":[32],"and":[35,63,109,128,159,164,168,200],"cannot":[36],"isolate":[37],"a":[38,54,118,130],"single":[39],"reliable":[40],"complete":[41],"first-hand":[42],"account":[43],"by":[44,106],"anthropologist":[46],"181).":[50],"Institutional":[51],"is":[53,92],"myth,":[55],"he":[56,90],"concludes;":[57],"one":[58],"which":[59],"anthropologists,":[60],"missionaries,":[61],"explorers,":[62],"travellers":[64],"alike":[65],"have":[66,76],"perpetuated.":[67],"His":[68],"skepticism":[69],"has":[70],"been":[71,77],"received":[72],"reluctantly":[73],"but":[74,204],"there":[75],"few":[78],"rigorous":[79],"examinations":[80],"evidence":[83],"(Brady":[84],"1982).":[85],"One":[86],"classic":[87],"man-eater":[88],"group":[89],"discusses":[91],"Island":[94,125,144,184],"Carib":[95,126,145],"Lesser":[98],"Antilles,":[99],"second":[101],"New":[102],"World":[103],"culture":[104],"encountered":[105],"Spanish":[108],"source":[110],"word":[113],"cannibal.":[114],"This":[115],"paper":[116],"provides":[117],"detailed":[119],"review":[120],"basis":[123],"therefore":[129],"test":[131],"Arens's":[133],"thesis":[134],"in":[135],"this":[136,197],"region.":[137],"To":[138],"sort":[139],"out":[140],"problem":[142],"cannibalism,":[146],"I":[147,169],"examine":[148],"difficulties":[150],"surrounding":[151],"issue,":[153],"skeptical":[155],"literature":[156],"preceding":[157],"Arens,":[158],"actual":[161],"ethnohistorical":[162],"data":[163],"its":[165],"modern":[166],"presentation,":[167],"suggest":[170],"reasons":[171],"prevailing":[174],"uncritical":[175],"acceptance":[176],"idea":[179],"cannibalism1.":[181],"Were":[182],"Caribs":[185],"cannibals":[186],"were":[188],"they":[189],"not?":[190],"Many":[191],"authors":[192],"simplicity":[195],"reductionistic":[198],"question":[199],"relied":[201],"upon":[202],"select,":[203],"prevalent":[205],"European":[206],"judgments":[207],"affirmative":[210],"answer":[211],"(Borome":[212],"1966,":[213],"Bradford":[214],"1973,":[215],"Jesse":[216],"1963,":[217],"Joyce":[218],"1916,":[219],"Loeb":[220],"1923,":[221],"Morison,":[222],"1942,":[223],"197":[224],"1":[225],"1974,":[227],"Ross":[228],"1970,":[229]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2012,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-10-25T09:29:13.331239","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}