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You are who you eat: De-colonizing Aztec cannibalism Geoffrey McCafferty University of Calgary 40 th Annual Chacmool Conference 2007 Calgary, AB

2007 You are who you eat: De-colonizing Aztec cannibalism

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You are who you eat:

De-colonizing Aztec cannibalism

Geoffrey McCafferty

University of Calgary

40th Annual Chacmool Conference

2007 – Calgary, AB

Codex Magliabechiano 58

Cannibalism in Codex Borgia

Codex Magliabechiano 61

Florentine Codex

Zultepec

Bone cluster at Zultepec

Horse remains from Zultepec

Great Pyramid of Cholula

Mass burial 205,

Cholula

Decapitated head in

polychrome bowl

Conclusion:

Cannibalism in the eye of the

beholder?

Or

Seasoned to taste?

Diego Rivera