{"product_id":"converging-on-cannibals-jared-staller-9780821423530","title":"Converging on Cannibals: Terrors of Slaving in Atlantic Africa, 1509-1670","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eConverging on Cannibals, \u003c\/i\u003e Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses used during the era of transatlantic slaving--cannibalism--was coproduced by Europeans and Africans. When these people from vastly different cultures first came into contact, they shared a fear of potential cannibals. Some Africans and European slavers allowed these rumors of themselves as man-eaters to stand unchallenged. Using the visual and verbal idioms of cannibalism, people like the Imbangala of Angola rose to power in a brutal world by embodying terror itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning in the Kongo in the 1500s, Staller weaves a nuanced narrative of people who chose to live and behave as \"jaga,\" alleged cannibals and terrorists who lived by raiding and enslaving others, culminating in the violent political machinations of Queen Njinga as she took on the mantle of \"Jaga\" to establish her power. Ultimately, Staller tells the story of Africans who confronted worlds unknown as cannibals, how they used the concept to order the world around them, and how they were themselves brought to order by a world of commercial slaving that was equally cannibalistic in the human lives it consumed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jared Staller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821423533\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821423530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Jared Staller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48438022766847,"sku":"9780821423530","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_639e96b6-654d-4598-81d1-eddf8b1cbe58.jpg?v=1777168273","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/converging-on-cannibals-jared-staller-9780821423530","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}