Claude levi strauss quotes

Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November1908 - 30 October2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

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• The entire village left the next day in about thirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the abandoned houses.

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[Le village entier partit le lendemain dans une trentaine de pirogues, nous laissant seuls avec les femmes et les enfants dans les maisons abandonnées.]

• Humanity is confined to the borders of the tribe, the linguistic group, or even, in some instances, to the village ....
  • Race and History (1952), p. 12

• Our science arrived at maturity the day that Western man began to see that he would never understand himself as long as there was a single race or people on the surface of the earth that he treated as an object.

  Only then could anthropology declare itself in its true colours: as an enterprise reviewing and