It is a necessary scholarly duty to inform the readers of HAHR of the inaccurate nature of the Häberlein’s misdirected, and rather petulant, “critique” of my discussion in “Hans Staden and the Cultural Politics of Cannibalism,” published in HAHR 80 (2000), not least since the political culture of their scholarship is clearly quite parochial. They may well be familiar with “German-language literature on European perceptions of the New World,” but apparently not with the extensive anthropological, literary, or historical materials on Brazil, the Tupi, or even Hans Staden. Thus it is notable that they do not wish to actually engage with the main discussion in the article on the cultural politics of cannibalism. Instead, having no actual substantive argument to make themselves, they feel the need to publicize the work of a German scholar, Annerose Menninger, not because it offers new, original, or compelling information but rather only because I...
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