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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gananath Obeyesekere |
ISBN: | 0520243072 9780520243071 0520243080 9780520243088 |
OCLC Number: | 186459751 |
Description: | 320 s. : illustrations |
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. |
Responsibility: | Gananath Obeyesekere. |
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"A tour de force: meticulously argued, nuanced, and wideranging in its interpretations. In the hands of a master, the prodigious scholarship and large intellectual appetite make for a very convincing, comprehensive work." -George Marcus, coeditor of Writing Culture; "The sheer scope of Cannibal Talk is remarkable, and its contribution to the anthropology of colonialism outstanding. Obeyesekere's research, original thinking, and applied reading are unrivalled on the discourses of cannibalism and their implications." -Paul Lyons, University of Hawaii" Read more...

