How To Use Levi-strauss In A Sentence
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Though he loved Levi-Strauss and Saussure, he showed how their relatively rigid theories of culture and language respectively contained the seeds of their own negation.
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As Lévi-Strauss said, ‘The people for whom the term cultural relativism was invented, have rejected it.’
One River
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Claiming to be misrepresented, Levi-Strauss responds vigorously to this charge in the postface to the volume, claiming that in his construction.
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When Levi-Strauss took Tesco to court for selling its jeans at knock-down prices similar to those paid in the US, it won, because Tesco had sourced them on the grey market outside Europe.
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I learned that Claude Levi-Strauss, the French anthropologist, coined a term bricolage to describe the thought patterns and learning processes of "primitive" societies.
NCBlogs
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Other parts of my argument derive from Malinowski, Mauss and Levi-Strauss, as well as from various of my younger contemporaries.
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Claude levi-strauss moved beyond Durkheim in an attempt to articulate the way in which the structures of society are exemplified in myths and symbols.
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Levi-Strauss turns to a problem stemming from his preceding observations, that of cultural uniformity.
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Edmund Leach provides “structural charts” describ - ing the various versions of Creation, Fall, and First Murder in accordance with the ideas of Claude Lévi-Strauss.
MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES
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Rejecting the ethnocentrism characteristic of an earlier generation of anthropologists, Levi-Strauss refused to think of tribal cultures as primitive.
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Lévi-Strauss’s argument hinges on two facts about the Native American trickster: (1) the trickster has a contradictory and unpredictable personality; (2) the trickster is almost always a raven or a coyote.
Vitro Nasu » 2008 » November
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claude levi-strauss moved beyond Durkheim in an attempt to articulate the way in which the structures of society are exemplified in myths and symbols.
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Goethe's morphological researches; his “historical” researches, far from indicating a surrender of morphol - ogy, represent an effort toward a total understanding of the folkloristic creations; Lévi-Strauss is not inter - ested in the folktale and does not try to know folktales, but is satisfied with logical operations and abstractions
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Later structuralists tend to think of Radcliffe-Brown as a functionalist (Lévi-Strauss speaks of “that primary form of structuralism which is called functionalism”; AS, p. 357), and to attribute to him two errors of judgment: first the belief that every feature of every society has an explicit function, second the belief that the structure of society is to be observed directly, as a surface phenomenon.
STRUCTURALISM
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Rejecting the ethnocentrism characteristic of an earlier generation of anthropologists, Levi-Strauss refused to think of tribal cultures as primitive.
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Examined purely structurally, this might represent a prototypical ‘exchange of men between women’ that would disrupt Levi-Strauss's universalist claims.
