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Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology
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Full Title:
Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology
Contributors:
By (Author) Stanley Walens
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Social and cultural anthropology
Indigenous peoples: religions, belief systems, cultural worldviews and spiritual
Essays
Dewey:
299.78
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
214
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
Weight:
369g
Description
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 the ways in which oral, assimilative metaphors en
