Dominique Cornet, Erik Van Den Broeck*, Raf Bauwens, Tristes Tropiques

"I need only to cite the example of Aztec Culture, that open wound in the side of American history, whose maniacal obsession with blood and torture (a universal obsession, in fact, but overt in the case of the Aztecs in the excessive form that comparison allows us to define) - however explicable it may be through the need to overcome the fear of death- puts it on a level with ourselves, not because the Aztecs were the only wicked in this way but because, like us, they were inordinately so." [Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques]



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