#lévi-strauss

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«El mundo comenzó sin el hombre y terminará sin él. Las instituciones, las costumbres y los usos, que yo habré inventariado en el transcurso de mi vida, son la eflorescencia pasajera de una creación en relación con la cual quizá no posean otro sentido que el de permitir a la humanidad cumplir allí su papel. Lejos de que ese papel le marque un lugar independiente, y de que el esfuerzo del hombre —aun condenado— consista en oponerse vanamente a una decadencia universal, aparece él mismo como una máquina, quizá más perfeccionada que las otras, que trabaja por la disgregación de un orden original y precipita una materia poderosamente organizada hacia una inercia siempre mayor, que un día será definitiva.»

Claude Lévi-Strauss: Tristes trópicos, págs. 466-467. Ediciones Paidós. Barcelona, 1998

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@bocadosdefilosofia

[sammeldeineknochen]

Ein Wort präzise zu definieren, ist eine vorzügliche geistige Übung. Man ermisst, in welchem Maße man im Alltagsleben bloß ungefähren oder irrigen Gebrauch von der Sprache macht.

Claude Lévi-Strauss: "Das Nahe und das Ferne", S.159

[theadaptableeducator]

Web of Shadows: The Interconnected Instability of Colonialism, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Capitalism

Claude Lévi-Strauss, a pioneering anthropologist, provides a framework through structuralism to examine cultural phenomena as interconnected systems. By analyzing the philosophies underpinning colonialism, nationalism, imperialism, and capitalism, we can debate their interconnectivity and unsustainability through a Lévi-Straussian lens. Interconnectivity: Colonialism: Structural Perspective:…

[cocainaenvenenada]

[jareckiworld]

Mimmo Paladino — Claude Lévi-Strauss. The Sadness of the Tropics (linocut, 1989)

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

"Can I call you 'Drias?"

"Only one person ever called me that"

"Oh! Gotcha! Too personal. Boundaries, Marcy!"

My babygirl blaming herself and her difficulty reading social cues when she didn't do anything 😭 how was she supposed to know it was "too personal"?? She automatically assumes she did something wrong she assumes she messed up my BABY

[dreams-of-mutiny]

“I am the place in which something has occurred.”

― Claude Lévi-Strauss

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Lévi-Srauss is the Beyonce of anthropology

[lostinthewoodsomewhere]

Was reading Lévi-Stauss's chapter on the construction of mythology in Structural Anthropology for my work, and this quote just made me think of Alan's writing in the dark place...

"Thus, myth grows spiral-wise until the intellectual impulse which has produced it is exhausted. Its growth is a continuous process, whereas its structure remains discontinuous" (1963, 229)

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[davidhudson]

Claude Lévi-Strauss, November 28, 1908 – October 30, 2009.

[kallemax]

„Wir verehren bestimmte Synthesen von hoher Komplexität. Es erschiene uns als ein Desaster, eine Weltkatastrophe, wenn alle Werke Rembrandts oder Michelangelos vernichtet würden. Wenn es sich aber um noch unendlich komplexere und unersetzlichere Synthesen handelt, nämlich um Arten von Lebewesen, Tiere oder Pflanzen, dann handeln wir mit völliger Gleichgültigkeit und Verantwortungslosigkeit.“ Claude Lévi-Strauss

[professeur-stump]

Un mythe aranda traduit bien ce sentiment d'une correspondance entre l'individuation géographique et l'individuation biologique : les êtres divins primitifs étaient informes, sans membres, et fondus ensemble, jusqu'à ce que survînt le dieu Mangarkunjerkunja (le lézard gobe-mouches) qui entreprit de les séparer les uns des autres et de les façonner individuellement. En même temps (et n'est-ce pas en effet la même chose?) il leur enseigna les arts de la civilisation et le système des sections et des sous-sections.

(Claude Lévi-Strauss, La Pensée sauvage)

[ripeteeth]

“If we are led to believe that what takes place in our mind is something not substantially or fundamentally different from the basic phenomenon of life itself, and if we are led then to the feeling that there is not this kind of gap which is impossible to overcome between mankind on the one hand and all the other living beings - not only animals, but also plants - on the other, then perhaps we will reach more wisdom, let us say, than we think we are capable of.”

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture

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[sammeldeineknochen]

Von dem Augenblick an, da der Mensch keine Grenze seiner Macht mehr kennt, neigt er zur Selbstzerstörung.

Claude Lévi-Strauss: "Das Nahe und das Ferne", S.284