“Men can coexist on condition that they recognize each other as being all equally, though differently, human, but they can also coexist by denying each other a comparable degree of humanity, and thus establishing a system of subordination.”

— Claude Lévi-Strauss, book Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 16 : Markets p. 149

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French anthropologist and ethnologist 1908–2009

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