Name: We are all Cannibals: And Other Essays (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) (en Inglés)
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Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
ISBN: 9780231170697

portada We are all Cannibals: And Other Essays (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Columbia University Press

Autor

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

176

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780231170697

Categorías

Materia antropología social y cultural etnográfica

We are all Cannibals: And Other Essays (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) (en Inglés)

Claude Lévi-Strauss (Autor) · Columbia University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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 people's culture and context. These essays relate meat eating to cannibalism, female circumcision to medically assisted reproduction, and mythic thought to scientific thought. They explore practices of incest and patriarchy, nature worship versus man-made material obsessions, the perceived threat of art in various cultures, and the innovations and limitations of secular thought. Levi-Strauss measures the short distance between "complex" and "primitive" societies and finds a shared madness in the ways we enact myth, ritual, and custom. Yet he also locates a pure and persistent ethics that connects the center of Western civilization to far-flung societies and forces a reckoning with outmoded ideas of morality and reason.