Montaigne and the Cannibals: Toward a Redefinition of Exoticism

Célestin, Roger

doi:10.1525/can.1990.5.3.02a00030

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“…Montaigne, for example, presents the exotic as a viable alternative to the "civilized" world. He considers the absence of laws among the Tupinambas to be more desirable than their proliferation in France, a decentering of the assumptions of his world through the use of the exotic (Célestin 1990).…”

Section: The End Of Exoticismmentioning

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Thinking About Cannibalism

Lindenbaum

2004

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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The discourse of cannibalism, which began in the encounter between Europe and the Americas, became a defining feature of the colonial experience in the New World, especially in the Pacific. The idea of exoticism, like that of the primitive, is also a Western construct linked to the exploring/conquering/cataloguing impulse of colonialism. We now live in a world where those we once called exotic live among us, defining their own identities, precluding our ability to define ourselves in opposition to "others" and to represent our own culture as universal. This chapter reviews anthropological approaches to cannibalism and suggests that we may now be in a position to exorcise the stigma associated with the notion of the primitive. If we reflect on the reality of cannibal practices among ourselves as well as others, we can contribute to dislodging the savage/civilized opposition that was once essential to the formation of the modern Western self and Western forms of knowledge.

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Section: The End Of Exoticismmentioning

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Thinking About Cannibalism

Lindenbaum

2004

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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“…U antropologiji, Montenjov (1581) esej o kanibalizmu najčešće je upotrebljavan u studijama o kulturnom relativizmu (Goldman 1999). On u svom eseju predstavlja novootkrivene, "egzotične" narode kao dostupnu alternativu evropskog "civilizovanog" sveta (Celestin 1990).…”

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Forms of Manifestation of Cannibalism

Pejković

2018

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The paper presents the typology of cannibalism and forms of its manifestation. It first presents endocannibalism and exocannibalism, as the two most widely defined forms, in which all other types can be included. As special forms of manifestation, which include the ritual dimension, funeral cannibalism and medieval cannibalism, within the ritual of the Eucharist, are singled out. Presented after are the characteristics of war cannibalism that occureed among tribes, but also as a response to European colonization and conquest, in the form of war anti-colonialist movements. The medical and pharmaceutical cannibalistic practices that emerged in medieval Europe and that were based on the beliefs about the healing quality of human blood and body parts are described in particular. As part of this practice, the tradition of treatment with mummies singled out and became very popular in medieval Europe.

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Montaigne and the Cannibals: Toward a Redefinition of Exoticism

Cited by 10 publications

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Thinking About Cannibalism

Thinking About Cannibalism

Forms of Manifestation of Cannibalism

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