Cannibal talk the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas /
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: 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.