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Obeyesekere, Gananath.

Cannibal talk the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / [electronic resource] : Gananath Obeyesekere. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. - xx, 320 p. : ill.

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.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2009.
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Nat. Bib. No.: GBA515761

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cannibalism.
Ethnology.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: GN409 / .O23 2005eb

Dewey Class. No.: 394/.9