We Are All Cannibals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We Are All Cannibals write by Claude Lévi-Strauss. This book was released on 2016-03-15. We Are All Cannibals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 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.
We are All Cannibals and Other Essays
We are All Cannibals and Other Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We are All Cannibals and Other Essays write by Claude Lévi-Strauss. This book was released on 2016. We are All Cannibals and Other Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The foremost anthropologist of the twentieth century uses compelling examples from history and contemporary life to challenge the criteria by which we judge others. Claude 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.
Cannibals All!
Cannibals All! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cannibals All! write by George Fitzhugh. This book was released on 1857. Cannibals All! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Jemmy Button
Jemmy Button - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jemmy Button write by Alix Barzelay. This book was released on 2013-03-26. Jemmy Button available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a fictionalized account of Jemmy Button, a native boy from Tierra del Fuego who was brought to London to be educated and then returned home to his island.
Life Among the Cannibals
Life Among the Cannibals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life Among the Cannibals write by Sen. Arlen Specter. This book was released on 2012-03-27. Life Among the Cannibals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revealing memoir of how Washington is changing---and not for the better During a storied thirty-year career in the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter rose to Judiciary Committee chairman, saved and defeated Supreme Court nominees, championed NIH funding, wrote watershed crime laws, always staying defiantly independent, "The Contrarian," as Time magazine billed him in a package of the nation's ten-best Senators. It all ended with one vote, for President Obama's stimulus, when Specter broke with Republicans to provide the margin of victory to prevent another Depression. Shunned by the GOP faithful, Specter changed parties, giving Democrats a sixty-vote supermajority and throwing Washington into a tailspin. He kept charging, taking the first bursts of Tea Party fire at public meetings on Obama's health care--reform plan. Undaunted, Specter cast the key vote for the health plan. In Life Among the Cannibals, Specter candidly describes the battles that led to his party switch, his tough transition, the unexpected struggles and duplicity that he faced, and his tumultuous campaign and eventual defeat in the 2010 Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Taking us behind the scenes in the Capitol, the White House, and on the campaign trail, he shows how the rise of extremists---in both parties---has displaced tolerance with purity tests, purging centrists, and precluding moderate, bipartisan consensus.
