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Feasting With Cannibals : An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology

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Format Paperback / softback
ISBN-10 069161461X
ISBN-13 9780691614618
Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jul 14th, 2014
Print length 214 Pages
Weight 369 grams
KSh 5,400.00
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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

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 encapsulate Kwakiutl ideas of man''s role in the cosmos.

Originally published in 1982.

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