Feasting With Cannibals

An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology

Stanley Walens (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

214 Seiten

2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691642215 (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.

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Illustrations, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*One Metaphors of Structure, Process, and Identity, pg. 21*Two Meals and the Moral Basis of Social Action, pg. 67*Three Animals as Metaphors of Morality, pg. 97*Four Myth, Metaphor, and the Ritual Process, pg. 124*Appendix One The First Salmon Rites, pg. 165*Appendix Two Index to Boas's Kwakiutl Texts, pg. 170*References, pg. 173*Index, pg. 189

Erscheinungsdatum	27.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Princeton Legacy Library
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780691642215 / 9780691642215
Zustand	Neuware