Cannibalism and infertility among the Lillooet, Thompson and Shuswap : the shaman as a sexual mediator

This thesis attempts to demonstrate that the symbolic significance of food gathering among the Lillooet, Thompson, and Shuswap generates two major paradoxes, cannibalism and infertility, which arise from a sexual imbalance revealed by certain myths related to food gathering, and that the shaman is a...

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Main Author: Calkowski, Marcia Stephanie
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18953