Christophe Colomb et autres cannibales. Essais the "Papyrus Boulaq 6"

the "Papyrus Boulaq 6"

jahrgang 1936

Written at the end of the Middle Kingdom and discovered in a wooden box at the bottom of a burial shaft during English excavations carried out in 1895-1896 on the west bank of Thebes

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Christophe Colomb et autres cannibales. Essais the "Papyrus Boulaq 6"Jack D. Forbes was one of the first to propose a counter story from the Native American perspective: he removed the word "cannibal" from Christopher Columbus's lips and reversed the accusation. To the heroic vision of the conquest of the West, he opposes a clear and scathing thesis: Western capitalist civilization and the conquest of the New World are based on exploitation, domination, murder and greed, pathologies that the Amerindians call wetiko .