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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Váldodahkki: Obeyesekere, Gananath (Dahkki)
Materiálatiipa: Licensed eBooks
Giella:eaŋgalasgiella
Almmustuhtton: Berkeley : University of California Press [2005]
Liŋkkat:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppn6j
Sisdoallologahallan:
  • 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.