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30 juin 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.editionsmsh.8695
- isbn: 9782735102563
- eisbn: 9782735119707
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Emmanuel Désveaux, « Retour à l’ethnographie », Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, ID : 10.4000/books.editionsmsh.8695
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« Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery. Your true whale-hunter is as much savage as an Iroquois. I myself am a savage, owning no allegiance but to the King of the Cannibals ; and ready at any moment to rebel against him.Now, one of the peculiar characteristics of the savage in his domestic hours, is his wonderful patience of industry. An ancient Hawaiian war-club or spear-paddle, in its f...