We are All Cannibals
And Other Essays
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Todd, Jane Marie (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-17068-0
- EAN: 9780231170680
- Produktnummer: 19199855
- Verlag: University Presses
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 167 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B14.9 cm x D2.0 cm 353 g
- Gewicht: 353
Über den Autor
Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Brussels in 1908. He held the chair of social anthropology at the Collège de France from 1959 to 1982 and was elected a member of the Académie Française in 1973. He died in Paris on October 30, 2009.
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