Cannibal Talk

Cannibal Talk
Title Cannibal Talk PDF eBook
Author Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 341
Release 2005-06-06
Genre History
ISBN 0520243080

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"A tour de force: meticulously argued, nuanced, and wideranging in its interpretations. In the hands of a master, the prodigious scholarship and large intellectual appetite make for a very convincing, comprehensive work."—George Marcus, coeditor of Writing Culture "The sheer scope of Cannibal Talk is remarkable, and its contribution to the anthropology of colonialism outstanding. Obeyesekere's research, original thinking, and applied reading are unrivalled on the discourses of cannibalism and their implications. "—Paul Lyons, University of Hawai'i

Cannibal Talk

Cannibal Talk
Title Cannibal Talk PDF eBook
Author Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 344
Release 2005-06-06
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780520938311

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In this radical reexamination of the notion of cannibalism, Gananath Obeyesekere offers a fascinating and convincing argument that cannibalism is mostly "cannibal talk," a discourse on the Other engaged in by both indigenous peoples and colonial intruders that results in sometimes funny and sometimes deadly cultural misunderstandings. Turning his keen intelligence to Polynesian societies in the early periods of European contact and colonization, Obeyesekere deconstructs Western eyewitness accounts, carefully examining their origins and treating them as a species of fiction writing and seamen's yarns. Cannibalism is less a social or cultural fact than a mythic representation of European writing that reflects much more the realities of European societies and their fascination with the practice of cannibalism, he argues. And while very limited forms of cannibalism might have occurred in Polynesian societies, they were largely in connection with human sacrifice and carried out by a select community in well-defined sacramental rituals. Cannibal Talk considers how the colonial intrusion produced a complex self-fulfilling prophecy whereby the fantasy of cannibalism became a reality as natives on occasion began to eat both Europeans and their own enemies in acts of "conspicuous anthropophagy."

The Man-Eating Myth

The Man-Eating Myth
Title The Man-Eating Myth PDF eBook
Author William Arens
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages
Release 1980-09-25
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0190281200

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A fascinating and well-researched look into what we really know about cannibalism.

Pacific Possessions

Pacific Possessions
Title Pacific Possessions PDF eBook
Author Chris J. Thomas
Publisher University of Alabama Press
Pages 184
Release 2021-05-25
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0817320946

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"Reframes Polynesia and Melanesia through analysis of nineteenth-century travel writing"--

Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles

Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles
Title Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles PDF eBook
Author Nancy Shoemaker
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 398
Release 2019-11-15
Genre History
ISBN 1501740369

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Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's founding. Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century Fiji, the "cannibal isles" of American popular culture, she uncovers stories of Americans looking for opportunities to rise in social status and enhance their sense of self. Prior to British colonization in 1874, extraterritorial Americans had, she argues, as much impact on Fiji as did the British. While the American economy invested in the extraction of sandalwood and sea slugs as resources to sell in China, individuals who went to Fiji had more complicated, personal objectives. Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles considers these motivations through the lives of the three Americans who left the deepest imprint on Fiji: a runaway whaleman who settled in the islands, a sea captain's wife, and a merchant. Shoemaker's book shows how ordinary Americans living or working overseas found unusual venues where they could show themselves worthy of others' respect—others' approval, admiration, or deference.

Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England

Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England
Title Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England PDF eBook
Author David B. Goldstein
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 295
Release 2013-11-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107512719

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David B. Goldstein argues for a new understanding of Renaissance England from the perspective of communal eating. Rather than focus on traditional models of interiority, choice and consumption, Goldstein demonstrates that eating offered a central paradigm for the ethics of community formation. The book examines how sharing food helps build, demarcate and destroy relationships – between eater and eaten, between self and other, and among different groups. Tracing these eating relations from 1547 to 1680 - through Shakespeare, Milton, religious writers and recipe book authors - Goldstein shows that to think about eating was to engage in complex reflections about the body's role in society. In the process, he radically rethinks the communal importance of the Protestant Eucharist. Combining historicist literary analysis with insights from social science and philosophy, the book's arguments reverberate well beyond the Renaissance. Ultimately, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England forces us to rethink our own relationship to food.

The Savage Hits Back

The Savage Hits Back
Title The Savage Hits Back PDF eBook
Author Julius Lips
Publisher
Pages 296
Release 1937
Genre Art
ISBN

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