Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. List of Abbreviations xiii
5. Preface xv
6. 1. Anthropology and the Man-Eating Myth 1
7. 2. “British Cannibals”: Dialogical Misunderstandings in the South Seas 24
8. 3. Concerning Violence: A Backward Journey into Maori Anthropophagy 57
9. 4. Savage Indignation: Cannibalism and the Parodic 88
10. 5. The Later Fate of Heads: Cannibalism, Decapitation, and Capitalism 117
11. 6. Cannibal Feasts in Nineteenth- Century Fiji: Seamen’s Yarns and the Ethnographic Imagination 151
12. 7. Narratives of the Self: Chevalier Peter Dillon’s Fijian Cannibal Adventures 193
13. 8. On Quartering and Cannibalism and the Discourses of Savagism 223
14. Conclusion 255
15. Notes 269
16. Index 311