Cannibal talk [electronic resource] : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.
Obeyesekere, Gananath.
2005
GN409 .O23 2005eb
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Title Cannibal talk [electronic resource] : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.
Author Obeyesekere, Gananath.
ISBN 0520243072 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520243080 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
Language English
Description xx, 320 p. : ill.
Call Number GN409 .O23 2005eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 394/.9
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-309) and index.
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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.

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