We are all cannibals and other essays / Claude Lévi-Strauss ; with a foreword by Maurice Olender ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, author.

Contributor:

Todd, Jane Marie, 1957- translator.

JSTOR (Organization)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

European perspectives

European perspectives: a series in social thought and cultural criticism

Standardized Title:

Nous sommes tous des cannibales. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Structural anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 159 pages.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part 1 Santa Claus Burned as a Heretic, 1952 1

Part 2 We Are All Cannibals, 1989-2000 19

1 "Topsy-Turvydom" 21

2 Is There Only One Type of Development? 26

3 Social Problems: Ritual Female Excision and Medically Assisted Reproduction 37

4 Presentation of a Book by Its Author 49

5 The Ethnologist's Jewels 57

6 Portraits of Artists 64

7 Montaigne and America 72

8 Mythic Thought and Scientific Thought 76

9 We Are All Cannibals 83

10 Auguste Comte and Italy 90

11 Variations on the Theme of a Painting by Poussin 99

12 Female Sexuality and the Origin of Society 105

13 A Lesson in Wisdom from Mad Cows 112

14 The Return of the Maternal Uncle 120

15 Proof by New Myth 127

16 Corsí e ricorsí: In Vico's Wake 133.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780231541268

0231541260

Publisher Number:

99966871904

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.