Savages? Cannibals? Barbarians? Oh My!: Montaigne and His Ideas about Society

Throughout this article, Michel de Montaigne asks the community what is right for society and what is useful by understanding the existence of a culture similar to the New World. This entirely different civilization formed his perception of his society. Montaigne wants people to understand this almost alien civilization and use it as a mirror of their own ideas about the right things and how they act. I introduce a culture completely different from the culture that the Europeans are familiar with and question the accuracy of their approach.

Michel de Montaigne's article "Cannibals", Michel de Montaigne said: "According to our criteria, this is truly barbarian, as they describe the Brazilians in the article" Cannibals "in the 1580 article I have to do this completely or we have to do so There is a remarkable distance between their roles and our character "(158). However, Montagne does not always maintain this "surprising" distance between barbarians and non-wild people, or between Brazilians and Europeans. Barbarians, and non - barbarians who best embodies the traditional European values, and finally the barbarians opposite the Europeans.

The disadvantages of Western civilization are reflected in a simple noble barbarian at first glance by using Montagne's "eating human race". This can be explained by Montaigne's writing era. It was during this time that "enlightened", the explorers of Western civilizations from Europe, discovered they themselves conquered and benevolently persuaded the local people of the New World. There is no need to analyze Montagne to infer why indigenous people of barbaric colonies will attract him. His frustration about the functional or functional nature of his wise society appeared in most of his papers. "Cannibals" is an attack on intellectuals of the Montagne period. Using barbarians as a general interpretation of the group practicing normal culture, Montagne then began using his theme for cannibalism.

A cannibal is an article that is one of the collections of essays collected by Michel de Montaigne, describing the ritual of Pininaba in Brazil. In particular, he reported how the organization respected and eaten the enemy 's dead bodies. In his work, he uses cultural relativism to compare European "savage" of the 16th century with cannibalism.