Also, there was an essential belief held by some (like the Liverpool River natives) that through eating a dead relative or enemy who had a unique and desirable quality (great wisdom or clever hunter), the consumers would gain their attributes; "If they killed a fast runner, they ate part of his legs, hoping thereby to acquire his speed- (Here be Cannibals 2). ...
In her novel "Frankenstein," Mary Shelley asks her audience to consider the limits to which we can expand the category of human nature, and if her creature might be best understood as "human". ... As Diana Reese states in her article, "A Troubled Legacy: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Inheritance of Human Rights," "Shelley's monster moves across the shifting terrain of his own indetermination at "superhuman speed"; traversing the slash between man/citizen, reasoner/human, general/individual will in ways that pose a delicate challenge to the work of reaso...
