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Safiya Sinclair
The word ‘cannibal’
Het woord \'Cannibal\'
Het woord ‘cannibal’, de Engelse variant van het Spaanse woord canibal, is afgeleid van het woord caribal, een verwijzing naar het inheemse Carib-volk in West-Indië, waarvan Columbus dacht dat het mensenvlees at en waarvan het woord ‘Caribisch’ is afgeleid. Alleen al door Caribisch te zijn, zijn alle ‘West-Indische’ mensen al, in zuiver taalkundige zin, als wilden geboren.The word ‘cannibal’
The word ‘cannibal,’ the English variant of the Spanish word canibal, comes from the word caribal, a reference to the native Carib people in the West Indies, who Columbus thought ate human flesh, and from whom the word ‘Caribbean’ originated. By virtue of being Caribbean, all ‘West Indian’ people are already, in a purely linguistic sense, born savage.
From: Cannibal
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
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The word ‘cannibal’
The word ‘cannibal,’ the English variant of the Spanish word canibal, comes from the word caribal, a reference to the native Carib people in the West Indies, who Columbus thought ate human flesh, and from whom the word ‘Caribbean’ originated. By virtue of being Caribbean, all ‘West Indian’ people are already, in a purely linguistic sense, born savage.
From: Cannibal
The word ‘cannibal’
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