Hamatsa
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ISBN: 0921870477 / Publisher: Ronsdale Press, March 1997
The first book-length study of whether cannibalism existed on the Pacific Northwest coast. McDowell...
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The first book-length study of whether cannibalism existed on the Pacific Northwest coast. McDowell shows how a "cannibal complex" among Westerners coloured many early accounts of "man-eating," and how this perception obscured the importance of ritual cannibalism in the secret Hamatsa ceremony?a crucial feature of Native spirituality.
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