Title:
Cannibal talk the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.
Main Entry:
Obeyesekere, Gananath.
ebrary, Inc.
Publisher:
University of California Press,
Publication Date:
c2005.
Publication Place:
Berkeley :
ISBN:
0520243072 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520243080 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject:
Cannibalism.
Ethnology.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Introduction: 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.
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