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Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology - Princeton Legacy Library Stanley Walens
Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology - Princeton Legacy Library
Stanley Walens
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
214 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 19, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691642215 |
| Publishers | Princeton University Press |
| Pages | 214 |
| Dimensions | 178 × 254 × 13 mm · 567 g |
| Language | English |