Feasting with Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology
by Walens, Stanley
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 069109392X
- ISBN 13
- 9780691093925
- Seller
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About This Item
Princeton University Press, 1981. 1st printing. Unmarked copy showing some reader's use and handling. Full cloth binding. 191pp. Dust jacket, moderately worn and with small chips, in a protective mylar cover. 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.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.
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- Bookseller
- Turn-The-Page Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 065138
- Title
- Feasting with Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology
- Author
- Walens, Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 069109392X
- ISBN 13
- 9780691093925
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall
- Keywords
- north American Indians Religion Mythology Northwest Coast
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology & Archaeology;
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