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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.
"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.