Feasting with cannibals : an essay on Kwakiutl cosmology /
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...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1981]
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