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2 days ago · By the language of anthropology I mean Lévi-Strauss’s language of anthropology, and in particular, the language used by Lévi-Strauss in the three volumes of his Mythologiques which have appeared to date, LeCru et le Cuit (The Cooked and the Raw) 1964; Du Miel auxCendres (From Honey to Ashes) 1966; and L’Origine des Manures de Table (The Origin of Table-Manners) 1968.
10 hours ago · Maria Tatar remarked that fairy tales are metaphoric devices, and Claude Lévi-Strauss pointed out that metaphors—in switching terms that belong to different codes—lay bare the broader semantic field underlying each transposition. Müller, Freud, Dundes, Tatar, and Lévi-Strauss variously glimpsed metaphoric patterns in tale variations.
2 days ago · page 543 note 1 See my Introduction to Lévi‐Strauss's Totemism, Penguin Books, 1969; and ‘Lévi‐Strauss: Myth's Magician’, New Blackfriars, May, 1969. The latter article is a study of the three volumes of Mythologiques (1964, ‘66, ’68) and their inter‐relations.
1 day ago · Extending Claude Lévi-Strauss’s analysis of myth in non-western societies, Louis Althusser defined ideology as an imaginary solution to real social contradictions. 16 The Hexagon provides an ideal resolution to some of the chief contradictions of French national identity.
1 day ago · Ironically, Levi Strauss & Co. (NYSE:LEVI) is not benefitting from the denim craze. The company, which is widely credited with inventing blue jeans back in 1853, has not enjoyed a sales uptick.
5 days ago · It attempts to fuse Marx, Rousseau, Freud and various linguistic philosophers. Derrida seeks to persuade us that speech and writing are based upon units of meaning – words – whose meaning is inherently shifting, unstable and unreliable. Here is a passage in which he discusses the writings of the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss:
2 days ago · According to structural anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, language and meaning—in opposition to "knowledge, which develops slowly and progressively"—must have appeared in an instant. [84] Structuralism, as first introduced to sociology by Émile Durkheim , is nonetheless a type of humanistic evolutionary theory which explains ...
