Cannibal talk: the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas

Abstract

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface 1. Anthropology and the Man-Eating Myth 2. British Cannibals: Dialogical Misunderstandings in the South Seas 3. Concerning Violence: A Backward Journey into Maori Anthropophagy 4. Savage Indignation: Cannibalism and the Parodic 5. The Later Fate of Heads: Cannibalism, Decapitation, and Capitalism 6. Cannibal Feasts in Nineteenth-Century Fiji: Seamen's Yarns and the Ethnographic Imagination 7. Narratives of the Self: Chevalier Peter Dillon's Fijian Cannibal Adventures 8. On Quartering and Cannibalism and the Discourses of Savagism Conclusion Notes Index