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Cannibal talk (Record no. 53549)

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000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 01851nam a2200337Ia 4500
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 394/.9
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Obeyesekere, Gananath.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Cannibal talk
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Berkeley :
Name of publisher University of California Press,
Year of publication c2005.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xx, 320 p. :
Other physical details ill.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Cannibalism.
Topical Term Ethnology.
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10076807

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