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Title: | Cannibalism amongst penitentiary escapees from Sarah Island in nineteenth century Van Diemen's Land | Contributor(s): | Byard, Roger W (author); Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish (author) | Publication Date: | 2018-09 | Early Online Version: | 2017-11-29 | DOI: | 10.1007/s12024-017-9938-6 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/32182 | Abstract: | Alexander Pearce was an Irish convict incarcerated on Sarah Island on the west coast of Van Diemen’s Land (modern day Tasmania, Australia) in 1822, following his transportation to the colony from the United Kingdom for seven years in 1819. On two occasions he escaped from the island, in September 1822 and again in November 1823, and was only able to survive the harsh conditions by killing and consuming his fellow escapees. Given that Pearce utilized the only sustenance that was at hand (i.e. his five companions), and that there was a temporal separation between the two episodes, this may represent a separate category of anthropophagy, that of serial opportunistic cannibalism. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology, 14(3), p. 410-415 | Publisher: | Springer | Place of Publication: | Germany | ISSN: | 1556-2891 1547-769X |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210303 Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 430302 Australian history 500203 History and philosophy of medicine 430311 Historical studies of crime |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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