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pensando en todo lo que alguna vez hizo Levi-Strauss http://bit.ly/1i36RR 13 days ago |
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@BenAharon The levi-strauss-link (the other didn't functuion) http://bit.ly/1i36RR 14 days ago |
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Throughout Lévi-Strauss's work there is a clear ... preference for a creativity distributed throughout a population http://bit.ly/2Ff4tc 14 days ago |
Additional coverage of Lévi-Strauss
Savage Minds —
Just a quick update of some highlights of recent coverage on the passing of Lévi-Strauss:
In addition to the New York Times, there are fine obituaries in The Telegraph, and The Guardian—I’ll get to the French papers later if I have a chance.
There is a fine gaggle of links at The Atlantic.
The AAA blog has run a couple of pieces about Lévi-Strauss, including one by Richard Price. There is also an older posting from Marshall Sahlins, which is, obviously, a much better summary of Lévi-Strauss’s thought and ...
2009-11-06 Spike activity
Mind Hacks —
... The Guardian has what seems to be the best obituary of legendary and hugely influential anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, probably because it was written by a fellow anthropologist. ...
Thinking through Claude Lévi-Strauss
Neuroanthropology —
... true giants of anthropology, passed away this past week on 30 October, just shy of 101 years old.
As Maurice Bloch writes, Lévi-Strauss was ‘the last survivor of these great beasts such as Sartre, Foucault and the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu,’ the theorists who have given contemporary anthropology, and social theory around the world, a French accent and Gallic cadence.
Excellent obituaries appeared in a number of places, two of my favourites being the one by Bloch in The Guardian, and another by Edward Rothstein in The New York Times ...
