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  2. The Savage Mind - Wikipedia

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    Lévi-Strauss makes clear that "la pensée sauvage" refers not to the discrete mind of any particular type of human, but rather to 'untamed' human thought: "In this book it is neither the mind of savages nor that of primitive or archaic humanity, but rather mind in its untamed state as distinct from mind cultivated or domesticated for the purpose of yielding a return."

  3. Category:Works by Claude Lévi-Strauss - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. Help. Pages in category "Works by Claude Lévi-Strauss" The following 6 pages are in ...

  4. Claude Lévi-Strauss - Wikipedia

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    Claude Lévi-Strauss (/ k l ɔː d ˈ l eɪ v i ˈ s t r aʊ s / klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; [2] French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) [3] [4] [5] was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. [6]

  5. Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human ...

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    Lévi-Strauss, Claude. The Raw and the Cooked. Translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1969. ISBN 9780226474878. Originally: Le Cru et le cuit (1964). Macksey, Richard, and Eugenio Donato. The Structuralist Controversy: The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2007 ...

  6. Tristes Tropiques - Wikipedia

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    Tristes Tropiques (the French title translates literally as "Sad Tropics") is a memoir, first published in France in 1955, by the anthropologist and structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss. [1] It documents his travels and anthropological work, focusing principally on Brazil , though it refers to many other places, such as the Caribbean and India.

  7. Edmund Leach - Wikipedia

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    Despite being a central interpreter of Levi-Strauss' work, producing several introductory works on Levi-Strauss' theoretical perspective, Leach considered himself "at heart, still a 'functionalist'". [12] His book Lévi-Strauss was translated into six languages and ran three editions. His turn of phrase produced memorable quotes, such as this ...

  8. Sociology of culture - Wikipedia

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    Lévi-Strauss, based, at the same time, on the sociological and anthropological positivism of Durkheim, Mauss, Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown, on the economic and sociological Marxism, on Freudian and Gestalt psychology and on structural linguistics of Saussure and Jakobson, realized great studies on areas myth, kinship, religion, ritual ...

  9. Floating signifier - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Chandler defines the term as "a signifier with a vague, highly variable, unspecifiable or non-existent signified". [4] The concept of floating signifiers originates with Claude Lévi-Strauss, who identified cultural ideas like mana as "represent[ing] an undetermined quantity of signification, in itself void of meaning and thus apt to receive any meaning".