Cannibal talk the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.
| Author/creator | Obeyesekere, Gananath |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berkeley : University of California Press, |
| Description | 1 online resource (xx, 320 p.) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Anthropology and the maneating myth -- "British cannibals" : dialogical misunderstandings in the South Seas -- Concerning violence : a backward journey into Maori anthropophagy -- Savage indignation : cannibalism and the parodic -- The later fate of heads : cannibalism, decapitation, and capitalism -- Cannibal feasts in nineteenth century Fiji : seamen's yarns and the ethnographic imagination -- Narratives of the self : Chevalier Peter Dillon's cannibal adventures -- On quartering and cannibalism and the discourses of savagism -- Conclusion. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-309) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Cannibal talk Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. 0520243072 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021696913 |
| ISBN | 9780520938311 ebook |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |