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Names: Lévi-Strauss, Claude, author. | Todd, Jane Marie, 1957– translator.

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

Other titles: Nous sommes tous des cannibales. English

Description: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016. | Series: European perspectives: a series in social thought and cultural criticism

Identifiers: LCCN 2015024328 | ISBN 9780231170680- (cloth) |

ISBN 9780231541268 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Structural anthropology.

Classification: LCC GN362 .L472513 2016 | DDC 301—dc23

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