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 with outmoded ideas of morality and reason.

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

Commentaire

Claude Lévi-Strauss was the austere author of Elementary Structures of Kinship, but did he also become, with age, a novelist of ideas, like those French philosophes of the Enlightenment? I am not sure he would have appreciated this suggestion, but I can give him no higher praise: We Are All Cannibals reads like a novel." - Julia Kristeva

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Claude L?vi-Strauss, Claude Laevi-Strauss, Claude Levi-Strauss, Clause Levi-Strauss, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Claude/ Olender LTvi-strauss
• Collaboration: Olender Maurice (Préface), Jane Marie Todd (Traduction)
• Edition: Columbia University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780231170680
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17068-0
• Pages: 176
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 217 mm x 22 mm
• Thèmes: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism; European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism; European Perspectives (COUP)
• Catégories: Ecole et pédagogie > Préparation de l'enseignement > Formation professionnelle; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Autres; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology