Feasting with cannibals : an essay on Kwakiutl cosmology /

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Professor Walens shows that the Kwakiutl visualize the world as a place of mouths and stomachs, of eaters and eaten. His analyses of the social rituals of meals, native ideas of the ethology of predation, a key Kwakiutl myth, and the Hamatsa dance, the most dramatic of their ceremonials, demonstrate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walens, Stanley, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1981]
Temas:
Kwakiutl mythology.
Kwakiutl Indians > Religion.
Indian mythology > Northwest Coast of North America.
Indians of North America > Northwest Coast of North America > Religion.
Kwakiutl Indians > Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of North America > Northwest Coast of North America > Rites and ceremonies.
Kwakiutl > Religion.
Mythologie des Peuples autochtones > Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amérique du Nord)
Kwakiutl > Rites et cérémonies.
Mythologie kwakiutl.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Indian mythology
Indians of North America > Religion
Indians of North America > Rites and ceremonies
Kwakiutl Indians > Religion
Kwakiutl Indians > Rites and ceremonies
Kwakiutl mythology
North America > Northwest Coast of North America
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One Metaphors of Structure, Process, and Identity
  • Two Meals and the Moral Basis of Social Action
  • Three Animals as Metaphors of Morality
  • Four Myth, Metaphor, and the Ritual Process
  • Appendix One The First Salmon Rites
  • Appendix Two Index to Boas's Kwakiutl Texts
  • References
  • Index

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