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Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Stanley Walens
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| Series | Princeton Legacy Library |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:214 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 178 |
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| Category/Genre | Worship, rites and ceremonies |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780691614618
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| Classifications | Dewey:299.78 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Princeton University Press
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| Imprint |
Princeton University Press
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| Publication Date |
14 July 2014 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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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
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