Cannibal Talk
Subtitle: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: June 6, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780520243071
Subjects: Customs; Sociology; Cannibalism; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Oceania; Anthropology - General; Asia - General; Customs & Traditions; Social Science / Anthropology / General
First sentence: 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.