Humanities and Fine Arts 191HFA2 - FYS-Cannibalism:Art/CulturalHs

Cannibalism has been, at different times, a necessity, a medicinal fad, a metaphor, a fact of our common ancestry, an act of respect and a grievous taboo. This course will seek to briefly trace the fact of cannibalism through history, and then engage with what the metaphor has come to mean in different contexts and to different people. By engaging with diverse media, including excerpts from graphic novels, court transcripts, newspaper reports, paintings, textbooks, literary fiction, dubious travelogues, music and movies, we will be establishing the literal and historical instances of cannibalism and then opening the discussion up to larger considerations of cannibalism as metaphor.

Open to first-year Humanities and Fine Arts Exploratory Track students and first-year HFA Majors.