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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Obeyesekere, Gananath
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Cannibalism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.