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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| 語言: | 英语 |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
[2005]
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| 在線閱讀: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppn6j |
書本目錄:
- 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.