Cannibal talk : the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / Gananath Obeyesekere.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005], ©2005.

xx, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-309) and index.

Anthropology and the maneating myth -- "British cannibals" : dialogical misunderstandings in the South Seas -- Concerning violence : a backward journey into Maori anthropophagy -- Savage indignation : cannibalism and the parodic -- The later fate of heads : cannibalism, decapitation, and capitalism -- Cannibal feasts in nineteenth century Fiji : seamen's yarns and the ethnographic imagination -- Narratives of the self : Chevalier Peter Dillon's cannibal adventures -- On quartering and cannibalism and the discourses of savagism -- Conclusion.