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Cannibal Talk : The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas /

In this radical reexamination of the notion of cannibalism, Gananath Obeyesekere offers a fascinating and convincing argument that cannibalism is mostly "cannibal talk," a discourse on the Other engaged in by both indigenous peoples and colonial intruders that results in sometimes funny an...

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Main Author: Obeyesekere, Gananath (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo

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