News and stories about Claude Levi-Straus

Locating Gesture: Leroi-Gourhan among the Cyborgs by Michael Chazan

In France he has left a powerful imprint on anthropology and beyond and his impact is often considered on a par with that of Claude Levi-Strauss. Among his legacies are the Techniques et Cultures school of cultural anthropology, ...

Posted 03/09/2010 at 08:19PM EST

I am a mixed blooded person, so what? Pure blooded race is Myth or ...

While the director-general Koïchiro Matsuura recalled that since 1951 UNESCO had prepared several declarations on race, Claude Levi-Strauss praised the work of the UNESCO, stating in response to Matsuura: ...

Posted 03/09/2010 at 11:57AM EST

CENTRE FOR THE AESTHETIC REVOLUTION: DON'T BE TROPICAL, DON'T BE A ...

photograph of Claude Levi-Strauss in the tropics “Such is how I view myself: a traveller, an archaeologist of space, trying in vain to restore the exotic with the use of particles and fragments”. Tristes Tropiques exhibition publication ...

Posted 03/08/2010 at 10:57AM EST

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Sunday, March 7, 2010. Pablo León de la Barra & Claude Levi-Strauss (at the opening of Tristes Tropiques), The Barber Shop, Lisbon. Publicada por nuno alexandre em 11:53 PM. Etiquetas: art, openings ...

Posted 03/07/2010 at 11:53PM EST

primeira avenida

Sunday, March 7, 2010. Pablo León de la Barra & Claude Levi-Strauss (at the opening of Tristes Tropiques), The Barber Shop, Lisbon. Publicada por nuno alexandre em 11:53 PM. Etiquetas: art, openings ...

Posted 03/07/2010 at 11:53PM EST

FOOD FIGHTS | dickday's Blog

Claude Levi-Strauss wrote a book entitled "The Raw & the Cooked." One of the premises of this book involves the importance of food in human culture. Americans and residents of the so-called Western Culture will not eat horses or dogs or ...

Posted 03/06/2010 at 10:39PM EST

Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Worker in medium of torn ...

TRISTE appears in my two favorite French book titles of the fifties, Tristes Tropiques (Sad Tropics) by Claude Levi-Strauss and Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan. GESTAPO BTW stands for Geheime Staatspolizei (secret state police) ...

Posted 03/05/2010 at 11:30AM EST

casca news: Call for Papers: Savage Thoughts: Interdisciplinarity ...

Call for Papers: Savage Thoughts: Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Claude Levi-Strauss. Savage Thoughts Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas ...

Posted 03/04/2010 at 11:05PM EST

Communist Party of Great Britain » Communist Forum: One Myth Only

Voice files of public meetings, weekly political reports and other events www.cpgb.org.uk. March 4, 2010. Communist Forum: One Myth Only. Filed under: culture — cpgb @ 9:17 pm. Chris Knight on Claude Levi-Strauss. Listen Now: ...

Posted 03/04/2010 at 09:17PM EST

Read between the lines « the slag heap

A year on from the death of philosopher and anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, whose seminal work explored the complexities of kinship, mythology and identity, we re-examine this notion of community and self. ...

Posted 03/04/2010 at 12:16PM EST

Is Hofstede more prominent than all anthropologists? « Culture Matters

While not looking at citations, I ran a search on Google Insights of Hofstede with a couple of prominent anthropological names: Bruno Latour, Claude Levi-Strauss, Paul Farmer, and Margaret Mead. This compares the number of times these ...

Posted 03/04/2010 at 11:25AM EST

4 days to go: Oscar producers move into the Kodak | Ammo Games

Academy says seminal French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died at age 100. Hilary Mantel, Mary Karr among nominees for National Book Critics Circle prize. Judge schedules hearing for Joe Jackson's bid to get money from son's ...

Posted 03/04/2010 at 07:22AM EST

Germany protests arrest of Iranian filmmaker | Ammo Games

Academy says seminal French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died at age 100. Spain starts exhuming mass grave believed to hold remains of poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Another celebrity knocked out of the 'Dancing With the Stars' ...

Posted 03/03/2010 at 07:20PM EST

CENTRE FOR THE AESTHETIC REVOLUTION: 'TRISTES TROPIQUES' A GRAN ...

In memory of Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) “Tropical countries, as it seemed to me, must be the exact opposite of our own…” "As we got steadily near the tropics, the heat made the hold more and more unbearable, and turned the deck ...

Posted 03/03/2010 at 12:31PM EST

50 ilmuwan terkenal dunia « ILMCI

79, Claude Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, Jewish. 80, Lynn Margulis, Symbiosis Theory, Jewish. 81, Karl Landsteiner, the Blood Groups, Jewish. 82, Konrad Lorenz, Ethology. 83, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology ...

Posted 03/03/2010 at 08:23AM EST

From Whence It Came: TFT Review of The History of White People by ...

Every few pages of Tristes Tropiques, Claude Levi-Strauss seems to be reminding the reader of his invasive behavior; so does De Tocqueville, in Democracy in America. Two Frenchmen in foreign countries spring to mind not only because the ...

Posted 03/03/2010 at 03:15AM EST

The Net Age » The Mythical Quest for Independence

As Claude Levi-Strauss observed, nothing in today's society is more mythical than political ideology. He wrote: But what gives the myth an operational value is that the specific pattern described is timeless; it explains the present and ...

Posted 03/02/2010 at 07:32AM EST

Bonham Carter maintains wicked streak in `Alice' | Ammo Games

Academy says seminal French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died at age 100. Obama's brother turns down film role to focus more on writing, charity work. Movie review: Horror remake `The Crazies' taps into our current fear of flu ...

Posted 03/01/2010 at 07:02PM EST

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE | horsemusic

CLAUDE LEVI STRAUSS –“Nothing is settled, everything can still be altered. What was done but turned out wrong can be done again. The Golden Age, which blind superstition had placed behind (or ahead of) us, is in us. ...

Posted 03/01/2010 at 06:41PM EST

The Story of the Lebanese Tailor « Spectrain's Blog

The Moral of the Story. The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. Claude Levi-Strauss. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated). The kissing predicament. Say your words ...

Posted 03/01/2010 at 10:23AM EST

theoryishotcrew: Claude Lévi-Strauss comic in the Financial Times

Entry tags: claude levi-strauss, fun stuff, he lived till 100? really? Claude Lévi-Strauss comic in the Financial Times By the authors of Logicomix: "Exclusive Claude Lévi-Strauss cartoon" ...

Posted 02/28/2010 at 02:19PM EST

ALECOS: Financial Times: Cartoon on Claude Levi-Strauss.

Financial Times: Cartoon on Claude Levi-Strauss. Enjoy! :-). 0 comments: Post a Comment. Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Blogliness. No drawings yet... Labels. Animation (2); Logicomix (10); Yoga (6). links ...

Posted 02/27/2010 at 03:03PM EST

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Posted 02/27/2010 at 03:03PM EST

ALECOS: Financial Times: Cartoon on Claude Levi-Strauss.

Financial Times: Cartoon on Claude Levi-Strauss. Enjoy! :-). 0 comments: Post a Comment. Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Blogliness. No drawings yet... Labels. Animation (2); Logicomix (10); Yoga (6). links ...

Posted 02/27/2010 at 03:03PM EST

Parallel Exhibitions by Sarah Ortmeyer and Florian Huttner at ...

Her works draw out the potentially subversive elements hidden within historical narratives through an approach that is reminiscent of what Claude Levi-Strauss described as “bricolage” in his work La Pensée sauvage, referring to the ...

Posted 02/27/2010 at 12:37PM EST

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE | GEEK!

CLAUDE LEVI STRAUSS –“Nothing is settled, everything can still be altered. What was done but turned out wrong can be done again. The Golden Age, which blind superstition had placed behind (or ahead of) us, is in us. ...

Posted 02/27/2010 at 09:35AM EST

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As anthropologist and ethnographer Claude Levi-Strauss said, in a 1972 interview,. A well-ordered humanism does not begin with itself, but puts things back in their place. It puts the world before life, life before man, and the respect ...

Posted 02/26/2010 at 01:04PM EST

Marco A Garcia: Are Priobiotics Really the Secret to Good Health ...

It doesn't hurt that they fill an interesting gap between those two states of being into which anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss lumped everything: the raw and the cooked. Like culinary libertarians, these sour treats that go down so ...

Posted 02/24/2010 at 05:44PM EST

Structural Anthropology – Levi-strauss, New Book | TextBook ...

Structural Anthropology By Levi-Strauss, Claude Click to see more Items by this Author Product Description The structural method, first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. ...

Posted 02/22/2010 at 11:36AM EST

NEW MEDIA: Seeing world through other eyes at Paris expo

"We have the illusion that everyone sees the same things," said curator Philippe Descola, who occupies the anthropology chair at the College de France once held by the late Claude Levi-Strauss. "The culture we were raised in shapes the ...

Posted 02/21/2010 at 10:35PM EST

/Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"}: “TRISTES ...

Library of Babel, A Virtual or Digital Library comprising of free unlimited downloads of eBooks, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, Movies, Poetry, Arts, Literature, Theatre, Music, Psychology, Psychiatry, Science, Culture, Photography, ...

Posted 02/21/2010 at 07:08AM EST