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Last year, at this conference, I discussed how distinctions between nature and culture, and humans and animals, can arise from the technical processes of food production (see "Food as an object of cultural technical study "). Drawing on... more
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      Future StudiesAnthropologyMedia StudiesCyborg Theory
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      Social and Cultural AnthropologyHistory of Social SciencesSociological TheoryStructuralism/Post-Structuralism
In Interpreting Ancient Egyptian Narratives, Martin Pehal applies structural analysis to four New Kingdom narrative compositions. The study explains the strong configurational character of ancient Egyptian (mythological) thought which has... more
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      ReligionAncient Egyptian ReligionEgyptologyMythology
The illustrious poets also, annoyed by the platitude of prose, speedily relinquished their uncongenial task. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Anmerkungen zu sprachlicher Selbstbezüglichkeit anhand von Textbeispielen Steffen Popps, Judith... more
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      RhetoricPoetryClaude Lévi-StraussAnalytical Philosophy
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      History of ScienceHistory of AnthropologyBiographyClaude Lévi-Strauss
This essay analyzes the origin of sexuality and its relationship with the institution. The issue is addressed from the perspective of psychoanalysis (Freud, Lacan), anthropology (Claude Lévi-Strauss) and philosophy (Foucault, Butler,... more
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      AnthropologyPhilosophySex and GenderSexuality
To look at the characters from the TV show Adventure Time as representing the archetype of the female hero. The characters Betty Grof and Marceline Abadeer are used as primary example to testify their mythological undertones using the... more
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      PsychoanalysisMythologyMedia StudiesMaterial Culture Studies
L'essai « Des cannibales » prédomine depuis 40 ans la transmission des Essais. Le post colonialisme et le tournant éthique, alliés au consumérisme romantique de l'exotique y miroitent à merveille. Reste que Montaigne retrouve au Brésil... more
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      Critical TheoryPostcolonial StudiesSocial and Cultural AnthropologyColonialism
Feature essay published in catalogue accompanying the 'Five Trees Make a Forest by Donna Ong' exhibition at NUS Museum, Singapore (10 March - 4 September 2016)
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      Museum learningVisual CultureClaude Lévi-StraussVisual Arts
Este ensaio busca discutir o conceito de raça difundido pelo discurso da democracia racial brasileiro e o seu contra-discurso difundido pelos movimentos negros no Brasil que buscam em seu enfrentamento diário lutar por políticas de... more
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      Claude Lévi-StraussLiteraturaFoucault power/knowledge - discourseMário de Andrade
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      Value TheoryGift Giving (Economic Anthropology)Claude Lévi-StraussUrban Squatting
This paper is an exploration of how language perpetuates culture through the act of mythmaking in the character Kwan from Amy Tan’s The Hundred Secret Senses. I view the ghosts within this text as distancing mechanisms, becoming conduits... more
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      Cultural History Of GhostsChinese Language and CultureClaude Lévi-StraussCultural Anthropology
Un revenant c'est, anthropologiquement, un disparu qui revient pour réclamer son dû. C’est, en ce sens, le symptôme d’un malaise que la communauté ne peut plus retenir ni contenir : celle-ci est sommée, par l’apparition, d’intégrer... more
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      Georges Didi-HubermanGhostsCultural History Of GhostsWaste recycling
"In meiner Arbeit werden die theoretischen Ansätze zu Mythen in der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie behandelt. Dabei möchte ich neben den Grundfragen und -vorstellungen, wie der Frage nach der Definition und den gesellschaftlichen... more
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      ReligionMythology And FolkloreFolkloreSocial Anthropology
JBL 137.3 (2018): 555-79. The postmodern turn in the humanities is now at a point that requires response and revision to some deconstructionist trends. As a case study, this article examines the inversion principle formulated by Claude... more
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      Critical TheoryAbrahamic ReligionsMythologyBiblical Studies
Апстракт: Истраживањем пракси и дискурса, који окружују производњу, потрошњу, припрему, послуживање и конзумацију хране настојаћемо да разоткријемо односе моћи и начине на које се концептуализовао род у руралној Шумадији у 19. и почетком... more
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      Claude Lévi-StraussFood StudiesFood & CultureTraditional Food
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      PhilosophyJean PiagetPaul RicoeurJacques Derrida
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      JamaicaJamaica (Anthropology)Claude Lévi-StraussMoney
Lévi-Strauss's work appears to exhibit a paradoxical, trademark contrast: on the one hand, a positive and reasonably confident approach to the restricted domain of anthropological research, particularly in his constant defence of the... more
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      Social and Cultural AnthropologyContemporary French PhilosophyBiographyClaude Lévi-Strauss
Althusser builds on Marx's principle of revolution by explaining the functioning of the state and ideology. Contradictions in the society are when the class struggles are possible. When there is a contradiction between the owners of means... more
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      Louis AlthusserStructuralism (Philosophy)Claude Lévi-StraussFerdinand de Saussure
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      Claude Lévi-StraussRoger CailloisUniversalismParticularism v.s Universalism
Die Sache der Reziprozität findet sich in alltäglichen Phänomenen wie dem des Grüßens und des Sich-Verabschiedens, des Dankens und des Schenkens. Um sie auf den Begriff zu bringen, wird ihr in diesem Lehrbuch zunächst exemplarisch... more
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      Gift ExchangeClaude Lévi-StraussMarcel MaussReciprocity
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      Mythology And FolkloreClaude Lévi-StraussAmitav Ghosh
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      Kinship (Anthropology)Anthropology of KinshipClaude Lévi-StraussEmile Durkheim
O presente artigo propõe uma revisão do conceito de inconsciente forjadopor Lévi-Strauss no início do desenvolvimento do pensamento estruturalista. Para isso, serão analisados textos selecionados extraídos do livro... more
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      Claude Lévi-StraussAntropologíaEstruturalismoInconsciente
Claude Lévi-Strauss apostó, a lo largo de su obra, por la unidad de la especie humana, lo cual conlleva preguntas éticas sobre la diversidad cultural. El siguiente trabajo recoge algunas de las ideas más importantes del etnólogo respecto... more
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      Claude Lévi-StraussHumanismoÉticaAntropología Social
In emblematic works of Brazilian literature, one finds significant traces of approaches to reality that gained prominence in anthropology as important alternatives to modern naturalism. One of these approaches is Amerindian perspectivism,... more
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      Modernist Literature (Literary Modernism)Jacques DerridaGeorges BatailleJulia Kristeva
RESUMEN Se presentan resultados de una investigación bibliográfi-ca sobre los conceptos de prehistoria, historia y mito a partir de referencias de la arqueología, la antropología y el psicoanálisis. Estas referencias se desarrollan y... more
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      PsychoanalysisPrehistoric ArchaeologyJacques LacanSigmund Freud
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      Claude Lévi-StraussPueblo mapucheClaude Levi Strauss
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      Cultural HistoryCultural StudiesHistory of IdeasGenealogy
In this paper (published five years after I wrote it) I attempt to show that, through his reading of Proudhon in The Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949), Lévi-Strauss aimed at solving the well-known dilemma put forth by Hobbes and... more
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      AnthropologyPolitical PhilosophySocial SciencesPolitical Theory
Book review for Symposium: The Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy
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      Cultural StudiesSocial and Cultural AnthropologyAmerindian StudiesContinental Philosophy
Claude Lévi-Strauss holds that history and anthropology difffer in their choice of complementary perspectives: history organizes its data in relation to conscious expressions of social life, while anthropology proceeds by examining its... more
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      Literary StylisticsRoland BarthesLinguistic stylisticsStructuralism/Post-Structuralism
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      Anthropology of FoodStructuralism/Post-StructuralismClaude Lévi-Strauss
Os ateliers, seminários e encontros realizados com Claude Ledoux se inscreveram no âmbito de atividades acadêmicas desenvolvidas na Unicamp e na Usp na área de Análise Musical e compreenderam: Reflexão sobre a Análise Musical relacionada... more
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      Popular MusicOral Tradition In Popular MusicPopular CultureEdgar Morin
This chapter outlines the development of kinship studies in anthropology from their beginning to our days. It reviews classic debates on descent and marriage, the role of gender studies in rethinking kinship categories and the more recent... more
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      AestheticsSocial AnthropologyKinship (Anthropology)Social and Cultural Anthropology
Mann sostiene que el Estado es esencialmente una arena, de lo cual se originan sus mecanismos y poderes autónomos. Se opone a la reducción de vincularlo con grupos económicos, ideológicos o militaristas, ya que es ontológicamente... more
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      Claude Lévi-StraussMichael MannMax WeberFilosofía Política
https://www.cairn.info/revue-la-linguistique-2020-1-page-3.htm This article explores the question of historicity in the anthropology of Claude Levi-Strauss from the viewpoint of his relationship to the Jakobsonian functionalist... more
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      Claude Lévi-StraussLinguistiqueHistoireStructuralisme
Telif hakkı nedeniyle Youtube'tan kaldırılan videoların altyazıları
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      Louis-Ferdinand CélineClaude Lévi-StraussMilan Kundera
The present study has a twofold purpose: Firstly, it is an analysis of the Karbalā´ Drama—i.e. the death of Ḥusayn b. `Alī in the hands of an army which had been sent out by the Umayyad authorities, at Karbalā´ in 60/680—as it is retold... more
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      Shi'ismIslamClaude Lévi-StraussEarly Islamic History
Texto integrante dos Anais do XIX Encontro Regional de História: Poder, Violência e Exclusão. ANPUH/SP-USP. São Paulo, 08 a 12 de setembro de 2008.
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      Theory of HistoryClaude Lévi-StraussHistoria IntelectualTeoria e metodologia da história
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      Cultural StudiesPopular CultureClaude Lévi-StraussCultural Heritage and Ethnology/anthropology Research
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      AnthropologyTravel WritingEthnographySocial and Cultural Anthropology
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      AnthropologyClaude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Way of the Masks (La Voie des Masques) provides an accessible introduction to his structuralism, including the concepts of opposition and diacritical meaning. The essay seeks to show how diacritical meaning on the... more
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ΠΕΡΙΛΗΨΗ: Σε τούτο το άρθρο, το οποίο αναφέρεται στα δύο πρώτα κεφάλαια των «Θλιβερών Τροπικών», επιχειρείται η παρουσίαση των βιωματικών τρόπων με τους οποίους ο Κλωντ Λεβί-Στρως συσχετίστηκε με την πρακτική της εθνογραφίας. Μέσα από τα... more
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      AnthropologyEthnographyEthnography (Research Methodology)Symbolic Anthropology (Anthropology)