1	Talking To Strangers Tristes Tropiques, 3 November 7, 2002
2	The philosophical voyage Montaigne, “On Cannibals” (see p. 309) Rousseau, The Social Contract and Essay on the Origin of Inequality (pp. 390-393)
3	Kings “the honor of leading the battle” (305-317) Conditions of power: Consent Reciprocity (generosity, ingenuity) Caduveo vs. Bororo vs. Nambikwara “the state of nature”?
4	The writing lesson What the Nambikwara chief learned What his people learned What Levi-Strauss learned
5	Polarities and patterns Opposition and integration in Caduveo society Clans, moieties, generations, genders And in Caduveo face-painting (188-97) Motifs, axes, symmetry, asymmetry Art as the (non-representational) representation of conflict Dealing with death (p. 245) Imaginary reconciliation
6	Comparative methods Cannibalism and imprisonment: incorporating the enemy vs. banishing the enemy (pp. 387-89) “Analysis of this kind, if carried out sincerely and methodically… introduces an element of moderation and honesty into our evaluation of customs and ways of life very remote from our own… and removes from our own customs that air of inherent rightness which they so easily have” (p. 389) “Every effort to understand destroys the object” (p. 411)
7	The world is smaller “An end to journeying”: “improvement in communication” (29) “Neolithic imagination”: the New World is still neolithic, even in its cities Slash-and-burn agriculture Ghost towns and burned-out neighborhoods The repeated “discovery” of the New World: gold, sugar, coffee, diamonds…
8	Circles “What we call the exotic expresses an inequality of rhythm” (130) Americas – Europe – India (Asia) (148-49) Asia à Europe à Americas à Asia “The Lost World” Pp. 249-60 Common civilization Range of combinations (p. 133)
9	The eternal return? Asia as the past of the world and also its future Mohenjo-Daro = Karachi or New York: “After 4 or 5 thousand years of history, the wheel has come full circle” (p. 130) What a cyclical history means for the writer of anthropology “Man takes along with him all the positions he has already occupied, and all those he will occupy… For we live in several worlds, each truer than the one it encloses, and itself false in relation to the one which encompasses it” (p. 412)
10	Folding Fans (p. 113) Face designs Buddhism and Marxism (p. 412)
11	Taxila, the hinge of history?
12	Entropic tropics? A property of messages: as they become distorted, they lose the properties that distinguish them from their environment “stupidity” (pp. 180, 188) of nature Effect of intercultural communication: the “warm bath”? This book is a symptom of the disease it diagnoses – and the author knew that on page 1.