Margarita Xanthakou

Defining Identity

Jacques Galinier, Antoinette Molinié

Neo-Indians

Claude Fischler, Véronique Pardo

Special Diets

In many countries, restrictive diets are changing individual eating habits — and profoundly altering the way we relate to one another.

François Ascher

The Hyper-Modern Eater

Christine Tardieu

How We Become Bipeds The Wolf-Child Myth

A history of how and why humans are the only mammals that permanently adopted bipedalism.

Jean-Pierre Changeux

The Natural Foundations of Ethics

Is the sense of morality universal, is it inherent to human nature? The members of this symposium gathered around Jean-Pierre Changeux ponder the diversity of moralities and question themselves about the conflicts due to cultural differences and the possibility of attaining a common morality which would be intrinsic to human nature.

Claude Fischler, Estelle Masson

Eating Frenchs, Europeans, Americans and Food

Philippe Descola

Claude Lévi-Strauss, A Journey Through the Century

Eminent specialists on Claude Lévi-Strauss, his disciples and intellectual heirs, from Brazil, Canada, France and the U.S., give us a wide-ranging view of every facet of the works and thought of the author...