Writing the Hamatsa: Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal Dance by Aaron Glass

Writing the Hamatsa: Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal Dance

Aaron Glass

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Despite settler attempts to eradicate Hamatsa, the ritual remains an important prerogative of the Kwakwaka'wakw people. When anthropologists sought to confine the cannibal dance to the past, the Kwakwaka'wakw adapted and preserved its dramatic cho...

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