Cannibal talk the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas
In this radical reexamination of the notion of cannibalism, Gananath Obeyesekere offers a fascinating and convincing argument that cannibalism is mostly "cannibal talk," a discourse on the Other engaged in by both indigenous peoples and colonial intruders that results in sometimes funny an...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
2005.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31877898*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
