- 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.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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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