As the title of this book, Cannibal Talk, implies, I deal with the discourses of cannibalism and the behaviors and practices associated with such talk ("discursive practices") in the interaction between natives and Europeans following the "discovery" of Polynesia by Captain James Cook in the voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-72.
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The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas
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by Gananath Obeyesekere
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Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas
June 6, 2005, University of California Press
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Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas
June 6, 2005, University of California Press
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in English
- 1 edition
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Cannibal Talk: the Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas
2005, University of California Press
in English
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Cannibal talk: the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas
2004, University of California Press
in English
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"As the title of this book, Cannibal Talk, implies, I deal with the discourses of cannibalism and the behaviors and practices associated with such talk ("discursive practices") in the interaction between natives and Europeans following the "discovery" of Polynesia by Captain James Cook in the voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-72."
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