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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Obeyesekere, Gananath (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press [2005]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppn6j