Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology

Hardback

Main Details

Title Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Stanley Walens
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:214
Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 178
Category/GenreWorship, rites and ceremonies
ISBN/Barcode 9780691642215
ClassificationsDewey:299.78
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 19 April 2016
Publication Country United States

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