News and stories about Claude Levi-Straus

Encore 407 再来一次« Springhero's Weblog

The fantasizing of antiquity, mythology as you call it—Claude Levi-Straus also called it by that name—of the Mediterranean region—which is precisely the one we don't touch because it's the most profuse and, above all, because such a big ...

Posted 07/13/2010 at 11:59PM EST

Valya: "It cannot be understood without beeing seen as the result ...

"It cannot be understood without beeing seen as the result of the permanent conflict between the group giving the woman and the group acquiring her". From Elementary Structures of Kinship by Claude Levi-Strauss, quoted in Sexism and ...

Posted 07/01/2010 at 03:42AM EST

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown « Ether Wave Propaganda

If “structures” revealed anything for Claude Levi-Strauss, it was the hidden rather than the empirical reality. For Maurice Halbwachs, according to Kuper, this “reality may lie at the level of a 'collective unconscious. ...

Posted 06/30/2010 at 09:57PM EST

[HF] 2010 Britannica Book of the Year - Rapidshare Forums

People of 2009 commends the works of the year's Nobel Prize winners and celebrates the lives of such people as legendary football player and manager Sir Bobby Robson, chaotic TV chef Keith Floyd, anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss and ...

Posted 06/30/2010 at 09:10PM EST

The Bricoleur and the Engineer « Te Ipu Pakore

Verbatim from Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (1962): [T]he “bricoleur” is . . . someone who works with his [or her] hands and uses devious means compared to those of a craftsman. . . . (16-17). [He or she] is adept at performing a ...

Posted 06/28/2010 at 09:59PM EST

The Bricoleur and the Engineer « Te Ipu Pakore

Verbatim from Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (1962): [T]he “bricoleur” is . . . someone who works with his [or her] hands and uses devious means compared to those of a craftsman. . . . (16-17). [He or she] is adept at performing a ...

Posted 06/28/2010 at 09:59PM EST

Siting Translation, Displacing Original « सारी दुनिया ...

To show how it does so “implicitly”, she quotes Claude Levi -Strauss: “When we consider some system of belief… the question which we ask ourselves is indeed. 'what does all this mean or signify? and to answer it, we force ourselves to ...

Posted 06/28/2010 at 11:14AM EST

Siting Translation, Displacing Original « सारी दुनिया ...

To show how it does so “implicitly”, she quotes Claude Levi -Strauss: “When we consider some system of belief… the question which we ask ourselves is indeed. 'what does all this mean or signify? and to answer it, we force ourselves to ...

Posted 06/28/2010 at 11:14AM EST

2010 Britannica Book of the Year - Rapidshare Forums

People of 2009 commends the works of the year's Nobel Prize winners and celebrates the lives of such people as legendary football player and manager Sir Bobby Robson, chaotic TV chef Keith Floyd, anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss and ...

Posted 06/28/2010 at 08:20AM EST

Paranormal Montana: Is there such thing as a Christian Witch?

Some of these folks are still emotionally and culturally attached to their childhood practices, so they do a form of what anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss called "bricolage" --selecting a spiritual "meal" in a sort of spiritual ...

Posted 06/27/2010 at 02:15PM EST

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

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 06/26/2010 at 12:58AM EST

Get The Job Done Right » PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

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 06/26/2010 at 12:58AM EST

made in david: Visual Communication and Cinema Language 5

One semioticians in particular, Claude Levi-Strauss (1908- ), French anthropologist, set out to research and understand any structure that is constructed with a system of signs and organized under specific rules. ...

Posted 06/25/2010 at 02:36PM EST

2010 Britannica Book of the Year

People of 2009 commends the works of the year's Nobel Prize winners and celebrates the lives of such people as legendary football player and manager Sir Bobby Robson, chaotic TV chef Keith Floyd, anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss and ...

Posted 06/24/2010 at 01:51AM EST

2010 Britannica Book of the Year - Rapidshare Forums

People of 2009 commends the works of the year's Nobel Prize winners and celebrates the lives of such people as legendary football player and manager Sir Bobby Robson, chaotic TV chef Keith Floyd, anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss and ...

Posted 06/24/2010 at 01:51AM EST

Vitrine 448 and the Economy of Meaning-Making | MOA Blog

Generally speaking, Vitrine 448 juxtaposes the narrative of Hassan's personal life with the Museum institution and its collections – particularly with Claude Levi-Strauss' 1930s photographs featuring Cadveo people of Meto Grosso of ...

Posted 06/23/2010 at 07:39PM EST

CultureBy – Grant McCracken

VP: You're a creative, divergent thinker, yet you seek to avoid what Claude Levi-Strauss called “wild thought.” How do you balance creativity and structure, and what would you advise entrepreneurs about striking that balance? ...

Posted 06/22/2010 at 04:26PM EST

The Paolo Review of Books: Cultural Amnesia by Clive James

The boring and drab reading I had to do for work was rewarding me with the chance of becoming a polymath and I started to read voraciously into semiotics; Umberto Eco, Jacques Lacan, Claude Levi Strauss, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard ...

Posted 06/22/2010 at 03:57AM EST

This Day ... In Jewish History: This Day, June 22, In Jewish History

1997: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Look, Listen, Read by Claude Levi-Strauss and Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy ...

Posted 06/21/2010 at 07:26PM EST

Hitch-22: The Missing Chapter! | Books | The L Magazine - New York ...

Call and Response: The Music Video and The Meme. Or, How the Viral Parody Saved the Music Video. A consideration, starring M.I.A., Lady Gaga, fan parodies, video art, and Claude Levi-Strauss. by Tom McCormack; May 19, 2010 ...

Posted 06/21/2010 at 03:36PM EST

TG Editor: Put English on it

I learned that Claude Levi-Strauss, the French anthropologist, coined a term bricolage to describe the thought patterns and learning processes of “primitive” societies. And I thought that Levi Strauss was just interested in blue jeans. ...

Posted 06/21/2010 at 01:12PM EST

Gedachten in gedichten: Mordzinski exhibit includes portraits of ...

... Anna Gavalda, Michel Houellebecq, J.M.G Le Clézio, Claude Levi-Strauss, Amin Maalouf, Patrick Modiano, Daniel Pennac, Fred Vargas, Mario Benedetti, Eduardo Berti, Jorge-Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia-Márquez, Elsa Osorio, Octavio Paz, ...

Posted 06/19/2010 at 01:16PM EST

aaahfooey: ...that is all

If On A Winter's Night A Traveler: Italo Calvino 5/5 63. The Maltese Falcon: Dashiell Hammett 5/5 64. The Squares Of The City: John Brunner 4/5 65. Kissing The Beehive: Jonathan Carroll 5/5 66. Myth and Meaning: Claude Levi-Strauss 3/5 ...

Posted 06/19/2010 at 08:19AM EST

Mordzinski exhibit includes portraits of Caribbean writers ...

... Anna Gavalda, Michel Houellebecq, J.M.G Le Clézio, Claude Levi-Strauss, Amin Maalouf, Patrick Modiano, Daniel Pennac, Fred Vargas, Mario Benedetti, Eduardo Berti, Jorge-Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia-Márquez, Elsa Osorio, Octavio Paz, ...

Posted 06/18/2010 at 05:08AM EST

Mordzinski exhibit includes portraits of Caribbean writers ...

... Anna Gavalda, Michel Houellebecq, J.M.G Le Clézio, Claude Levi-Strauss, Amin Maalouf, Patrick Modiano, Daniel Pennac, Fred Vargas, Mario Benedetti, Eduardo Berti, Jorge-Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia-Márquez, Elsa Osorio, Octavio Paz, ...

Posted 06/18/2010 at 05:08AM EST

2010 Britannica Book of the Year - Rapidshare Forums

People of 2009 commends the works of the year's Nobel Prize winners and celebrates the lives of such people as legendary football player and manager Sir Bobby Robson, chaotic TV chef Keith Floyd, anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss and ...

Posted 06/17/2010 at 01:12PM EST

Taking Heat | Electric City Weblog

But for the purposes of reinforcing what I was saying below about Claude Levi-Strauss (never let a crisis of anthropological understanding go to waste), let me replicate for you what Montana Cowgirl thinks is the smoking gun–the writing ...

Posted 06/16/2010 at 05:53PM EST

Science: ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science

However, French anthropologist Dan Sperber (Research Director at the Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS and 2009 recipient of the Claude Levi-Strauss Prize in Social Science) has recently challenged these findings in chimpanzees and insists ...

Posted 06/16/2010 at 01:11PM EST

Science: ScienceBlogs Channel : Humanities & Social Science

However, French anthropologist Dan Sperber (Research Director at the Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS and 2009 recipient of the Claude Levi-Strauss Prize in Social Science) has recently challenged these findings in chimpanzees and insists ...

Posted 06/16/2010 at 12:18PM EST

Anthropology, Primatology, and the Definition of Culture: Reply to ...

However, French anthropologist Dan Sperber (Research Director at the Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS and 2009 recipient of the Claude Levi-Strauss Prize in Social Science) has recently challenged these findings in chimpanzees and insists ...

Posted 06/15/2010 at 06:00PM EST

Anthropology, Primatology, and the Definition of Culture: Reply to ...

However, French anthropologist Dan Sperber (Research Director at the Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS and 2009 recipient of the Claude Levi-Strauss Prize in Social Science) has recently challenged these findings in chimpanzees and insists ...

Posted 06/15/2010 at 04:30PM EST