Feasting with cannibals
Subtitle: an essay on Kwakiutl cosmology
By: Stanley Walens.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Kwakiutl Indians -- Religion.; Kwakiutl Indians -- Rites and ceremonies.
Description: Using Boas's ethnographic material, an examination of the fundamental principles of Kwakiutl world view and morality from within the context of a Kwakiutl, rather than a western, intellectual universe.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 173-187.
Includes index.