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Cannibal talk the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas

Title
Cannibal talk [electronic resource] : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.
Author
Obeyesekere, Gananath.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.

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Description
1 online resource (xx, 320 p.) : ill., maps.
Uniform Title
Cannibal talk (Online)
Alternative Title
Cannibal talk (Online)
Subject
Cannibalism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-309) and index.
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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.
LCCN
2004018117
OCLC
ssj0000117426
Author
Obeyesekere, Gananath.
Title
Cannibal talk [electronic resource] : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-309) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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