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We Are All Cannibals

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

We Are All Cannibals

By Claude Lévi-Strauss

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On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own custom barbarism," said Montaigne. In these essays, Claude Levi-Strauss shows us behavior that is bizarre, shocking, and even revolting to outsiders but consistent with a...Show more

Social and cultural anthropology

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9780231170697

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2017

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