We Are All Cannibals: And Other Essays

CONTENTS

Part 1: Santa Claus Burned as a Heretic, 1952

Part 2: We Are All Cannibals, 1989–2000

1. “Topsy-Turvydom”

2. Is There Only One Type of Development?

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

4. Presentation of a Book by Its Author

5. The Ethnologist’s Jewels

6. Portraits of Artists

7. Montaigne and America

8. Mythic Thought and Scientific Thought

9. We Are All Cannibals

10. Auguste Comte and Italy

11. Variations on the Theme of a Painting by Poussin

12. Female Sexuality and the Origin of Society

13. A Lesson in Wisdom from Mad Cows

14. The Return of the Maternal Uncle

15. Proof by New Myth

16. Corsi e ricorsi: In Vico’s Wake

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