Feasting with Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology

by Stanley Walens

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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 encapsulate Kwakiutl ideas of man's role in the cosmos. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:069109392X

ISBN13:9780691093925

Release Date:February 1982

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:248 Pages

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