Montaigne, the cannibals and everyone else in the world

"Of Cannibals" shows Montaigne's approach to the then recent contacts between Europeans and Amerindians. His skepticism explains such a peculiarity, the end of which concerns less the description of the way of life of indigenous peoples than the moral reflection induced, by highlighting: the inversions between the meanings of savage and barbarian, of the way in which we can understand the relationship between nature and artifice, of the perception of the diversity of cultures.