Cannibal Tour

I was. For years afterward, he had cherished a dream that one day he would travel the world and see Longstrider’s wonders for himself. Lord Tywin had put an end to that hope ten days before his dwarf son’s sixteenth nameday, when Tyrion asked to tour the Nine Free Cities, as his uncles had done at that same age. “My brothers could be relied upon to bring no shame upon House Lannister,” his father had replied. “Neither ever wed a whore.” And when Tyrion had reminded him that in ten…

Power and Male Dominance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981). 15. For example, Beatrice Whiting, ‘‘Sex Identity Conflict and Physical Violence: A Comparative Study,’’ American Anthropologist 67: 6, pt. 2 (1965): 123–140. 16. Marvin Harris, Cannibals and Kings (New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 1975). 17. Eleanor Leacock, ‘‘Woman’s Status in Egalitarian Society: Implications for Social Evolution,’’ Current Anthropology 19 (1973): 247–55. (The basic argument goes back to…