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Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology
Hardback
Main Details
Title |
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 |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:214 | Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 178 |
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Category/Genre | Worship, rites and ceremonies |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780691642215
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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 |
19 April 2016 |
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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