Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology
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Main Author: Walens, Stanley (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press [1982]
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Item 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 encapsulate Kwakiutl ideas of man's role in the cosmos.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (248p.)
ISBN:9781400857326
DOI:10.1515/9781400857326

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