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Claude Lévi-Strauss.
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ISBN: 2851970968 Year: 2004 Volume: 82 Publisher: Paris L'Herne


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Claude Lévi-Strauss et ses contemporains
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ISBN: 9782130607236 2130607233 Year: 2012 Publisher: Paris : Presses universitaires de France,

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L’oeuvre de Claude Lévi-Strauss a déjà fait l’objet de nombreuses présentations. Le but de cet ouvrage collectif n’est pas de reprendre les grandes orientations de la pensée du père de l’anthropologie structurale, mais de revenir sur l’influence qu’elles ont exercée ou les discussions et controverses qu’elles ont suscitées auprès d’un certain nombre de représentants majeurs de la philosophie et des sciences sociales de l’époque contemporaine (Bourdieu, Braudel, Caillois, Descola, Douglas, Dumont, Durand, Godelier, Héritier, Leach, Mauss, Merleau- Ponty, Needham, Ricoeur, Sartre, Wittgenstein…). Il est aussi l’occasion d’interroger les positions de Claude Lévi-Strauss à l’égard de quelques préoccupations essentielles de notre temps : la psychanalyse, le rapport à la nature, la diversité culturelle et la signification de l’art.


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Claude Lévi-Strauss : tussen mythe en muziek.
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ISBN: 9789026321689 Year: 2008 Publisher: Amsterdam Ambo


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On anthropological knowledge : three essays
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ISBN: 052126748X Year: 1982 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

The Double Twist
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ISBN: 1282014374 9786612014376 1442681128 9781442681125 9781282014374 0802035248 9780802035240 Year: 2001 Publisher: Toronto

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The essays in this intriguing collection all discuss Claude Levi-Strauss' "Canonical Formula," which he created in 1955 as a means of anthropological investigation. This apparently mathematical formula relates myths to cultural artifacts, and is especially applicable to the study of mental processes. In his paper, Levi-Strauss argues that the similarities in the architecture of seemingly disparate groups suggests a cognitive pattern that is shared by humanity; a " ... geometry that human endeavour has envisioned." The purpose of the work is to test the significance of the Formula, which is controversial and, for some, worthless. Part one applies the Formula to ethnographic field data and shows how it can lead to a deeper understanding of cultural facts; part two applies it to a body of Classical myths as an analytical tool, and part three focuses on the formal and mathematical applications and developments of the formula. The volume brings together international scholars - including Levi-Strauss, himself - from a variety of disciplines and offers important advances in structuralist thought. The essays build on each other to create a lucid, sophisticated work that pushes the limits of structuralism. This is a valuable book for scholars and advanced students of disciplines as diverse as anthropology, classical and religious studies, architecture, semiotics and mathematics


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The other face of the moon
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ISBN: 0674075188 0674075153 9780674075153 9780674072923 0674072928 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge, MA Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Claude Lévi-Strauss : the formative years.
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ISBN: 0521816416 0521016673 051180380X Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Lévi-Strauss is one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. His theory of structuralism has been influential not only in anthropology, but across the entire field of the humanities and social sciences. This book looks at the formative period of his career, from the 1940s to the early 1960s, where he attempts to define both his own place in anthropology and the place of anthropology in the wider context of the human sciences in France. Through a close reading of key texts, Christopher Johnson provides an introduction to key aspects of Lévi-Strauss' thought, at the same time posing more general questions concerning the construction of theory and the different modes of conceptualization that inform theory. Johnson looks at the ideological and autobiographical dimensions of Lévi-Strauss' work, and demonstrates how the impact of structuralism as an intellectual movement has clearly been greater than the sum of its theoretical parts.

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