Divine hunger : cannibalism as a cultural system / Peggy Reeves Sanday
- Bib ID:
- 1897505
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- Author:
- Sanday, Peggy Reeves
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- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986
- xvi, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 052132226X
- 0521311144
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- Machine derived contents note: Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Introduction: 1. Cannibalism cross-culturally
- 2. Analytic framework
- Part II. The Symbols That Give Rise to a Cannibalistic Consciousness: 3. The mysteries of the body: Hua and Gimi mortuary cannibalism
- 4. The androgynous first being: Bimin-Kuskusmin cannibalism
- 5. Cannibal monsters and animal friends
- Part III. The Mythical Chartering And Transformations of Cannibal Practice: 6. The faces of the soul's desires: Iroquoian torture and cannibalism in the seventeenth century
- 7. Raw women and cooked men: Fijian cannibalism in the nineteenth century
- 8. Precious eagle-cactus fruit: Aztec human sacrifice
- 9. The transformation and end of cannibal practice
- 10. Conclusion: other symbols and ritual modalities
- Notes
- References
- Index.
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 253-259.
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