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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 en



Table of Contents
*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

Feasting With Cannibals An Essay on Kwakiutl

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 14 July 2014
      ISBN-13 9780691614618
      978-0691614618
      ISBN-10 069161461X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 en



      Table of Contents
      *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

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