Návštěva u Velkého kanibala (2020)

A Visit to the Great Cannibal is a selection from the oral traditions of many archaic ethnic groups around the world. The chosen stories capture the worldview of individual ethnic groups, their life wisdom, moral values, and reflect their fears, desires, and perceptions of beauty from people so distant from us. The realities of harsh life in the jungle, the desert, or on tropical islands, which included cannibalism and other practices that may seem cruel or incomprehensible to us, intertwine here with timeless values, philosophical thoughts, wisdom, and the poetry of everyday life. The first part of the book takes the reader among the children of nature, hunters and gatherers wandering through the Australian outback, the Kalahari desert, or the rainforests of the Congo or the Amazon. We find ourselves in a world of people who perceive themselves as part of nature, where genders are equal, where property can be more of a burden than a value, and where a group sometimes must sacrifice its weakest members to survive adverse times. Their life strategies do not harm the environment, are flexible, and are actually the most successful humanity has ever had. We can seek a parallel here to the way of life of our Paleolithic ancestors. In the second part of the book, ethnic groups with a cannibalistic past come to the forefront. It is...