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Cannibal talk : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas
- Title
- Cannibal talk : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.
- Author
- Obeyesekere, Gananath.
- Publication
- Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, c2005.
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- Description
- xx, 320 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-309) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-5980
- ISBN
- 0520243072 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520243080 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004018117
- OCLC
- 56111856
- Author
- Obeyesekere, Gananath.
- Title
- Cannibal talk : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.
- Imprint
- Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-309) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-5980