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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walens, Stanley, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1981]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kwakiutl mythology.
Kwakiutl Indians > Rites and ceremonies.
Kwakiutl Indians > Religion.
Indians of North America > Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of North America > Religion.
Indian mythology.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Kwakiutl (Indiens) > Rites et ceremonies.
Mythologie indienne d'Amerique > Nord-Ouest, Côte (Amerique du Nord)
Kwakiutl (Indiens) > Religion.
Indians of North America > Northwest Coast of North America > Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of North America > Northwest Coast of North America > Religion.
Indian mythology > Northwest Coast of North America.
North America > Northwest Coast of North America.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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