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Cannibal talk

by Obeyesekere, Gananath.

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Published by : University of California Press, (Berkeley :) Physical details: xx, 320 p. : ill.

Subject(s): Cannibalism. | Ethnology. | Electronic books.

Year: 2005

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-309) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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