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The Captain and "the Cannibal"

An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage

James Fairhead
In 1830 the celebrated Captain Morrell kidnapped Dako, a young nobleman from an island off New Guinea, then took him to America and exhibited him as a ‘cannibal’. In this reconstruction of the two men’s interlaced odysseys, an anthropologist delves into a mass of archival material and examines the worldviews of the islanders and Americans, neither of whom initially viewed the other as entirely human. 
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Product information:
  • Publisher: Yale UP
  • Year: 2015
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 392pp
  • Illustrated: Yes
  • Dimensions: 232x154mm
  • ISBN: 9780300198775
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.7kg
Product code:
507988
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