Feasting With Cannibals (eBook)

An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology

Stanley Walens (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400857326 (ISBN)

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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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Amphibian • Analogy • Animal soul • antipathy • Antithesis • beak • Before the fact • bird • broth • burial • Cannibalism • Competition • cooking • Culture hero • Curing (food preservation) • Death • decapitation • defecation • dichotomy • dismemberment • eating • ethnography • Etiquette • Family history (medicine) • Fasting • Fishing • Fishing weir • flatulence • Food and drink prohibitions • Food storage • Gluttony • grandparent • halibut • Hamatsa • Housewife • human behavior • Human Spirit • Indication (medicine) • indulgence • insignificance • killer whale • Kinship Terminology • louse • Man-eater • Mask • meal • Metaphorical extension • Metempsychosis • miser • Moka exchange • Morality • moral responsibility • Mourning • myth and ritual • offal • Of Human Action • orality • Penis • poaching • Population decline • Primogeniture • Proscription • Prostitution • proverb • Reincarnation • Religion • Right to Food • ritualization • rumpelstiltskin • seal hunting • sea otter • Secular state • Self-Denial • Selfishness • Self-Sufficiency • sexual division of labour • Shamanism • shellfish • Simultaneous death • Sisiutl • Sociality • Social Status • Søren Kierkegaard • spiny dogfish • Spitting • squatting • sun dance • The Hungry Wolf • The Sea Monster • the tortoise and the hare • Thickening agent • Totem and Taboo • Totem Pole • Transformation mask • transubstantiation • Trickster • Vomiting • war • warfare • Wealth
• ISBN-13: 9781400857326 / 9781400857326