LEADER 04086nam 2200649 450 001 9910798296503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-54126-0 024 7 $a10.7312/levi17068 035 $a(CKB)3710000000614345 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001636252 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16388768 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001636252 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14823729 035 $a(PQKB)11257991 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001345573 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4549188 035 $a(DE-B1597)473172 035 $a(OCoLC)979742556 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231541268 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4966459 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4549188 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11411019 035 $a(OCoLC)944952030 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4966459 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL906002 035 $a(OCoLC)1027176334 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000614345 100 $a20150909h20162016 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWe are all cannibals and other essays /$fClaude Le?vi-Strauss ; with a foreword by Maurice Olender ; translated by Jane Marie Todd 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aEuropean perspectives: a series in social thought and cultural criticism 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-231-17068-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tFOREWORD / $rOlender, Maurice -- $tPART I. SANTA CLAUS BURNED AS A HERETIC, 1952 -- $tPART 2. WE ARE ALL CANNIBALS, 1989-2002 -- $t1. "TOPSY-TURVYDOM" -- $t2. IS THERE ONLY ONE TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT? -- $t3. SOCIAL PROBLEMS: RITUAL FEMALE EXCISION AND MEDICALLY ASSISTED REPRODUCTION -- $t4. PRESENTATION OF A BOOK BY ITS AUTHOR -- $t5. THE ETHNOLOGIST'S JEWELS -- $t6. PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS -- $t7. MONTAIGNE AND AMERICA -- $t8. MYTHIC THOUGHT AND SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT -- $t9. WE ARE ALL CANNIBALS -- $t10. AUGUSTE COMTE AND ITALY -- $t11. VARIATIONS ON THE THEME OF A PAINTING BY POUSSIN -- $t12. FEMALE SEXUALITY AND THE ORIGIN OF SOCIETY -- $t13. A LESSON IN WISDOM FROM MAD COWS -- $t14. THE RETURN OF THE MATERNAL UNCLE -- $t15. PROOF BY NEW MYTH -- $t16. CORSI E RICORSI: IN VICO'S WAKE -- $tNOTES -- $tINDEX -- $tABOUT THE AUTHOR 330 $aOn Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own custom barbarism," said Montaigne. In these essays, Claude Lévi-Strauss shows us behavior that is bizarre, shocking, and even revolting to outsiders but consistent with a people's culture and context. These essays relate meat eating to cannibalism, female circumcision to medically assisted reproduction, and mythic thought to scientific thought. They explore practices of incest and patriarchy, nature worship versus man-made material obsessions, the perceived threat of art in various cultures, and the innovations and limitations of secular thought. Lévi-Strauss measures the short distance between "complex" and "primitive" societies and finds a shared madness in the ways we enact myth, ritual, and custom. Yet he also locates a pure and persistent ethics that connects the center of Western civilization to far-flung societies and forces a reckoning with outmoded ideas of morality and reason. 410 0$aEuropean perspectives. 606 $aStructural anthropology 615 0$aStructural anthropology. 676 $a301 700 $aLe?vi-Strauss$b Claude$091732 702 $aTodd$b Jane Marie$f1957- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798296503321 996 $aWe are all cannibals and other essays$93674239 997 $aUNINA