TY - BOOK AU - Obeyesekere,Gananath ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Cannibal talk: the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas AV - GN409 .O23 2005eb U1 - 394/.9 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Cannibalism KW - Ethnology KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10076807 ER -