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Cannibal talk [electronic resource] : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.Description: xx, 320 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 394/.9 22
LOC classification:
  • GN409 .O23 2005eb
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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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E-Book Taylor's Library-TU 394/.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) e-book

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-309) and index.

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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