ISBN:
0520243080
,
0520243072
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 320 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Cannibal Talk : The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas
DDC:
394/.9
Keywords:
Ethnology
;
Cannibalism
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 and sometimes deadly cultural misunderstandings. Turning his keen intelligence to Polynesian societies in the early periods of European contact and colonization, Obeyesekere deconstructs Western eyewitness accounts, carefully examining their origins and treating them as a species of fiction writing and seamen's
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Preface; 1. Anthropology and the Man-Eating Myth; 2. "British Cannibals": Dialogical Misunderstandings in the South Seas; 3. Concerning Violence: A Backward Journey into Maori Anthropophagy; 4. Savage Indignation: Cannibalism and the Parodic; 5. The Later Fate of Heads: Cannibalism, Decapitation, and Capitalism; 6. Cannibal Feasts in Nineteenth-Century Fiji: Seamen's Yarns and the Ethnographic Imagination; 7. Narratives of the Self: Chevalier Peter Dillon's Fijian Cannibal Adventures
Description / Table of Contents:
8. On Quartering and Cannibalism and the Discourses of SavagismConclusion; Notes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-309) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520243071.001.0001
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