:the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas
/ Gananath Obeyesekere
Berkeley
: University of California Press,
, c2005.
xx, 320 p. ill., maps 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-309) and index.
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.