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“Cannibals All? A Discourse on Michel de Montaigne’s Essay, ‘On the Cannibals’” Chapter One Introduction: Cannibals all? This essay is an exploration of Michel de Montaigne’s (1533- 1592) “On the Cannibals.” It will assess Montaigne’s reaction to several views of “the other” in the sixteenth century. The first view is that all non-Europeans were savages, cannibals, less than human and not to be respected or trusted. This was the view that permeated much of Western c...