Wild Encounters: Art, Consumption and Cannibal Tourism
"Cannibals have always been others. This is a common and widespread prejudice throughout the world. It is a way of attributing to the stranger the negative mark of an extreme otherness that allows us to delimit the borders of our own identity. The term cannibal It was born linked to the conquest of America, the cultural confrontation, the imperial war and plunder. For centuries, Europe used it as an instrument of legitimization of imperialism and colonialism. However, during the last decades of the last century, with global tourism. and the devaluation of the exotic, we witness the displacement of the figure of the cannibal from the edges of our world towards the center, from our external space to our internal space. José Díaz Cuyás