Cannibal talk the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.

• 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.

Ämnesord

Kannibalism  (sao)

Cannibalism.  (LCSH)

Ethnology.  (LCSH)

Cannibalism  (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books  (local)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Mx Etnografi: näringsliv och arbetsliv

Mz Etnografi: folktro och folkseder

Mx Etnografi: näringsliv och arbetsliv

Mz Etnografi: folktro och folkseder

Klassifikation

GN409 (LCC)

394.9 (DDC)

Mx/DR (kssb/7)

Mz/DR (kssb/7)

Mx (kssb/7)

Mz (kssb/7)