Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology (Princeton Legacy Library) - Brossura

Walens, Stanley

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ISBN 10: 069161461X ISBN 13: 9780691614618

Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 2014

Riassunto

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.

Originally published in 1982.

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 069161461X
• ISBN 13: 9780691614618
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 212