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Cannibal talk : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas
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Cannibal talk : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas

Gananath Obeyesekere

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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.

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Cannibal talk : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas by Gananath Obeyesekere. ISBN 0520243080. Published by University of California Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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