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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 universe.
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 cer…