'I feel, therefore I am'. David Le Breton signs his anthropology in a version of Descartes' original quote - his goal is to approach people through the senses.
I've just come from reading a deeply interesting interview on Cafe Babel's October Brunch page.
In it, anthropologist David Le Breton speaks with Filippo Lubrano about his latest book titled La saveur du monde. Une anthropologie des sens ('The Taste of the World: An Anthropology of the Sense')
'I am an anthropologist and anthropology goes from basic assumptions: all people are equal. Fighting racism is also one of the first duties of anthropologists, more than fighting people. Our skin and bodies are just a metaphor, a semantic filter.'
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