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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Obeyesekere, Gananath (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Imperialism.
Cannibalism > Oceania.
Cannibalism.
73.06 ethnography.
Mensenoffers.
Kannibalisme.
Kannibalismus
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Cannibalisme.
Cannibalism
Ozeanien
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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