Cannibal talk the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.

Author/creator Obeyesekere, Gananath
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press,
Description1 online resource (xx, 320 p.)
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 269-309) and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Cannibal talk Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. 0520243072 (cloth : alk. paper)
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021696913
ISBN9780520938311 ebook

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