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The Savage Mind
"Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No précis is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."Geoffrey Gorer, The Observer, London
Paperback, 310 pages
Published
September 15th 1968
by University of Chicago Press
(first published 1962)
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Jason Williams
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Okay, first of all, these French guys have a way of talking about everything-and-nothing at the same time. From Braudel to Saussure to Barthes to Foucault to Mouffe to Derrida to Lacan to Deleuze and Guattari (and yes, Sartre), they have insisted on describing the deep structures (mentalities, langue, semiotics, microphysics of power, overdetermination, differance, etc) that underlie the petty details of history. Levi-Strauss deserves mention as part of this group. Along with Braudel, Levi-St...more
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Totemism is dead! Take that, nineteenth-century armchair anthropology! What edifice shall we build upon its scattered remains? This movement would later be called Edificism, which would be followed by Post-Edificism.
Fred and Ben Savage take you on a tour the intimate world they created through sheer cognitive willpower. Today, we are all scientists, and we are all savages.
Don't miss a WORD of these savage delights!
* The French national pasttime, bricolage! Turns out...more
Fred and Ben Savage take you on a tour the intimate world they created through sheer cognitive willpower. Today, we are all scientists, and we are all savages.
Don't miss a WORD of these savage delights!
* The French national pasttime, bricolage! Turns out...more
A difficult book to get through, as I needed to make sure I understood what he was saying. There are many intriguing thoughts nestled among the scientific reportings. It would be a great adventure to do an in-depth comparison of Levi-Strauss and Mead, but that study will have to wait for a couple lifetimes down the road unfortunately.
Matt Marro
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Claude Levi-Strauss; main proponent of structuralism. I've heard this is a good introduction. My problem is that if it can be considered a mainstream, or "legitimate," philosophical school I want to know about it.
intensely complex and dense. but, once you start to get past the bricoleur and Levi-Strauss's heavy French-ness, its definitely something to think about. Good discussion of classification and the human mind and critique of Sartres.
Ended on Page. 15, got distracted by other things. It's a good book to savor slowly. I borrowed it from the library and someone else was requesting it so I had to return it.
Passionant mais un peu difficile à digérer complètement. L’intérêt que soulève l'ethnologie est immense mais l'ampleur de la tache de Levy Strauss qui embrasse un sujet particulièrement vaste fait que l'esprit se perd parfois en essayant le suivre. Aurait il pu utiliser un peu moins de jargon philosophique et linguistique, serrer un peu plus ses raisonnements ? Son approche qui consiste à essayer de trouver ce qui unifie la pensée des êtres humains malgré les variations observées est très sympat...more
Harder to read than "Tristes tropiques" but interesting.
Lévi-Strauss's SAVAGE MIND is a longstanding classic of structural anthropology and needs no further comment from me.
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Great social theorist !
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This is a really bizarre encounter for me. So dry, yet so fast-paced. What an impassioned genius.
who are you calling savage? seriously.
I need help with this.
Instead of reading this long and brutal book, read Rumi's beautiful first poem in Divane Shams. What Rumi said in 10 lines so beautifully and elegantly 800 years ago, this French dude is trying to say in this long and horribly written book: categories are arbitrary.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss is a French anthropologist who is well-known for his development of structural anthropology. He was born on November 28, 1908 in Belgium as the son of an artist, and a member of an intellectual French Jewish family. Lévi-Strauss studied at the University of Paris. From 1935-9 he was Professor at the University of Sao Paulo making several expeditions to central Brazil. Between 1...more
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