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Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology

Stanley Walens
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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.Shows that the Kwakiutal visualize the world as a place of mouths and stomachs, of eaters and eaten.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology. To get started finding Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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1981
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069109392X

Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology

Stanley Walens
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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.Shows that the Kwakiutal visualize the world as a place of mouths and stomachs, of eaters and eaten.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology. To get started finding Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
191
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
—
Release
1981
ISBN
069109392X

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