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 the ways in which oral, assimilative metaphors encapsulate Kwakiutl ideas of man's role in the.Feasting With Cannibals: An Essay on Kwakiutl Cosmology by Walens, Stanley and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com.Get this from a library! Feasting with cannibals: an essay on Kwakiutl cosmology. (Stanley Walens).
Get this from a library! Feasting with cannibals: an essay on Kwakiutl cosmology. (Stanley Walens) -- Using Boas's ethnographic material, an examination of the fundamental principles of Kwakiutl world view and morality from within the context of a Kwakiutl, rather than a western, intellectual.Energy and Buildings, 18 (1992) 251-258 251 On Condis and Coolth Gwyn Prms Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK) Abstract This essay is about the cultural as well as the technical origins of society's large-scale conditioning of air.
This chapter provides an overview of the evidence for human trophy taking on the Northwest Coast from archaeological, historical, and ethnographic records. Although trophy taking has been commonly associated with raiding and warfare, whether this was the cause or the result of these practices will be examined from an ethnohistorical perspective.
