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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 1970

The raw and the cooked : introduction to a science of mythology

Claude Lévi-Strauss

This book examines the myths of the South American Indians and demonstrates how these can be reduced to a comprehensible psychological pattern. Moving from minute detail to bold speculation, Levi-Strauss argues that there is no fundamental break between the primitive mind and more evolved attitudes. He analyzes 250 myths to reveal their interrelation and basic structure and, by cross-referencing to European customs, he sets them in a general cultural context.


Revista española de la opinión pública | 1972

Sociología y antropología

Marcel Mauss; Teresa Rubio de Martín-Retortillo; Claude Lévi-Strauss

Portal Alipso.com: http://www.alipso.com/ Apuntes y Monografias > Filosofia > URL original: http://www.alipso.com/monografias/antropologia(trab_10) Bajo el titulo Sociologia y antropologia se recoge un conjunto de estudios realizados por el antropologo frances Marcel Mauss sobre temas que hoy forman parte de la denominada antropologia cultural o etnologia. Extraemos un fragmento de su larga introducc Fecha de inclusion en Alipso.com: 2001-04-28 Enviado por: Profesor Jose Luis Dell’Ordine ([email protected])


Social Science Information | 1973

Structuralism and ecology

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Fifty years ago, in 1922, Bronislaw Malinowski ended his classic study of the Kula ri,ig, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, with these words : &dquo;The study of ethnology so often mistaken by its very votaries foran idle hunting after cwios, for a ramble among the savage and fantastic shapes of ’barbarous customs and crude superstitions’ might become one of the most deeply philosophic, enlightening and elevating disciplines of scientific research. Alas! the time is short for ethnology, and will this truth of its real meaning and importance dawn before it is too late ?&dquo; More than any antlrropologist of his time, Profes-


Economic Botany | 1952

The use of wild plants in tropical South America

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Such plants have provided the natives since pre-Columbian times not only with food but also with shelter, salt, basketry, ornament, cloth, gums, unguents, poisons, medicines and other useful products.


Archive | 2009

The Cambridge companion to Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss; Boris Wiseman

Introduction Boris Wiseman Part I. Society and Culture: 1. Levi-Strauss and the question of humanism Denis Kambouchner 2. Levi-Strauss and history Michael E. Harkin 3. Structure and exchange Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel 4. The future of the structural theory of kinship Marcela Coelho de Souza Part II. Myth and Mind: 5. The two natures of Levi-Strauss Philippe Descola 6. On anthropological knowledge Claude Imbert 7. The limits of classification: Claude Levi-Strauss and Mary Douglas Frederic Keck 8. The local and the universal Eric Schwimmer 9. Levi-Strauss and the question of symbolism Marcel Henaff 10. Claude Levi-Strausss theoretical and actual approaches to myth Wendy Doniger Part III. Language and Alterity: 11. Of The Story of Lynx: Levi-Strauss and alterity Peter Gow 12. Before Babel: language and languages in Levi-Strauss Christopher Johnson Part IV. Literature and Aesthetics: 13. Structuralism, poetry, music: Levi-Strauss between Mallarme and Wagner Jeffrey Mehlman 14. Morphology and structural aesthetics: from Goethe to Levi-Strauss Jean Petitot 15. Structure and sensation Boris Wiseman.


Southwestern journal of anthropology | 1952

Kinship Systems of Three Chittagong Hill Tribes (Pakistan)

Claude Lévi-Strauss

partment of Social Sciences, enabled us to collect a few documents on these little known populationsl including three lists of relationship terms pertaining respectively to the Cakma, the Kuki, and the Mog. These lists will be submitted in this paper together with miscellaneous information on related subjects such as social structure, preferential mating, and the like. Unfortunately, the kinship systems remained incomplete on account of the briefness of our stay in the native villages and the corresponding impossibility of checking on the lists of terms and filling in some obvious gaps with the help of genealogies. Imperfect as they are, they may be found to be a useful addition to the existing literature on neighboring or related tribes in Assam and Burma.


Critique of Anthropology | 1976

Anthropology, History and Ideology

Claude Lévi-Strauss; Marc Augé; Maurice Godelier

MG: It’s more than that. On the one hand, it’s a fact that, for Marx, one should go beyond visible patterns, observable relations, and that scientific analysis proceeds in terms of structural levels. This reference shows that Marx is our contemporary; that his work, in the 19th century, represented a break with respect to other pre-Marxist forms of scientific thought. But, on the other hand, what I believe is fundamentally at stake is that Marx, somewhat as the linguists try to define the object of language through the diversity of languages, wanted to set out a theory of the functions of what makes a society exist as such. He put forward


Archive | 1975

Histoire D’une Structure

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Au praticien de l’analyse structurale, on pose presque toujours la meme question: comment, dans la realite, s’operent les transformations mythiques ? Vous alignez, dit-on, des mythes qui, d’une population a l’autre, se contrarient, s’inversent ou manifestent entre eux des rapports de symetrie sur plusieurs axes. Ce tableau est impressionnant, mais, pour le croire veridique, on voudrait saisir aussi la facon dont ces relations abstraites naissent les unes des autres. Dans quelles conditions historique ou locales, sous quelles influences externes ou internes, en reponse a quelles motivations psychologiques ces renversements s’engendrent-ils dans l’esprit de narrateurs et d’auditeurs qui, a tous autres egards, fonctionne — peut-on supposer — de maniere plus banale ? En somme, on refuse d’enterin(un inventaire de structures parachevees, et sorties tout armees de l’esprit collectif. Car cet esprit collectif, poursuit-on, n’est qu’une fiction derriere laquelle s’agitent une multitude d’esprits individuels: en chacun de ces esprits, vos structures ont resulte de certains proces, et ce sont ces proces empiriques qu’il faudrait deployer pour que le vecu se degage des constructions theoriques. Sinon, celles-ci risquent d’apparaitre comme le produit plus ou moins gratuit d’exercices logiques qui doivent leur caractere persuasif a la seule virtuosite.


Social Science Information | 1963

Les Discontinuites Culturelles et le Developpement Économique et Social

Claude Lévi-Strauss

C’est au XVI. siecle que le probleme des discontinuites culturelles s’est pose a la conscience occidentale, de facon soudaine et dramatique, avec la decouverte du Nouveau Monde. Mais à cette epoque, il se r6duit a une alternative assez simple : ou bien les indig6nes am6ricains sont des honmnes, et ils doivent s’integrer, de gre ou de force, a la civilisation chretienne, ou bien 1’lmmanite peut leur etre contestee, et ils relevent alors de la condition aniiiiale. 11 faut donc atteindre le xn~iii’ siecte pour que le probleme se pose en termes veritablement historiques et sociologiques. Encore doit-on noter que, quelle que soit la solution propos6e, tous les auteurs s’accordent sur les pr6iiiisses, c’est-A-dire sur la possibilité de comparer les societes que nous appellerions aujourd’hui primitives, avec la civilisation occidentale. Que les premieres se placent, comme le croit Condorcet, au point de depart d’une evolution progressive et ascendante, ou comme Diderot s’est parfois coiiiplu A le suggerer, qu’elles constituent


L'Homme | 2014

Heirat und Migration in Auswandererbriefen Die Bestände der Nordamerika- Briefsammlung in der Forschungsbibliothek Gotha

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Ausgehend von Passagierlisten, Zensusdaten und anderen sozialhistorischen Quellen wissen wir, dass nur sehr wenige Frauen alleine nach Übersee auswanderten. Im 19. Jahrhundert wanderte „die überwältigende Mehrheit der Frauen“, so Ulrike Sommer, „im Familienverband aus bzw. folgte Angehörigen – Eltern oder Ehemännern –, die bereits in den USA lebten; nur ein sehr kleiner Teil kam allein nach Amerika“.1 Hierzu gehörten vor allem unverheiratete oder verwitwete Frauen. Für sie war die Auswanderung in die USA eine Möglichkeit, eine ‚gute Partie‘ zu machen, sich damit aus der Abhängigkeit von der eigenen Verwandtschaft zu befreien und der deutschen Armutsfalle zu entgehen. So schrieb etwa die verwitwete Hedwig Schindler, die am 8. Oktober 1891 zusammen mit ihrer Tochter Anna und ihrem Sohn Heinrich die Reise in die USA angetreten hatte, in ihrem ersten Brief in die alte Heimat gut zwei Monate nach ihrer Ankunft in den USA: „Ich hätte mich längst verheirathen können; es kommen immer Deutsche junge Männer zu uns; einer aus Hannover nennt sich meinen Bräutigam, aber ich werde nicht so schnell einwilligen; ich kann jederzeit noch Parthie machen, da deutsche Frauen sehr beliebt sind hier.“2

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Marc Augé

École Normale Supérieure

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Marcel Mauss

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

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Marcel Hénaff

University of California

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