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Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas
by Gananath Obeyesekere
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- ISBN-13: 9780520243071
- ISBN: 0520243072
- Edition: 0
- Publication Date: 2005
- Publisher: University of California Press
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The European missionary in the South Seas tribal pot is an iconic image, but Obeyesekere argues that it owes more to Western imagination than to the truth. This thorough re-examination of the evidence for cannibalism offers a fascinating example of cultural misinterpretation.Gananath Obeyesekere is the author of 'Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas', published 2005 under ISBN 9780520243071 and ISBN 0520243072.
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