Writing the Hamat'sa: Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal Dance

Writing the Hamat'sa: Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal DanceLong known as the Cannibal Dance, the Hamatsa is among the most important hereditary prerogatives of the Kwakwakawakw of British Columbia. Writing the Hamatsa offers a critical survey of attempts to record, describe, and interpret the dance under shifting colonial policy. In the late nineteenth century, as anthropologists arrived to document the practice, colonial agents were pursuing its eradication and Kwakwakawakw were adapting it to ensure its

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