New Work Forum: On Food and Religion in Cevasco's Violent Appetites

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By Eleanor Barnett Copper-deficient & copper-replete fleeces, Royal Veterinary College. Courtesy of the Wellcome Collection. Violent Appetites begins with an account from the Presbyterian missionary Samuel Kirkland’s time living among a Seneca family in the 1760s. During his mission, hunger would afflict both Kirkland and his hosts at various points, but they would diverge in how that hunger was understood and experienced. To colonists like Kirkland, Native appetites marked them as differen...

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