Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology Zero – Polity, July 2021, translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff The original French …
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology Zero – Polity, July 2021
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology Zero – Polity, July 2021, translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff The original French …
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology Zero – Polity, July 2021
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2 responses to “Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology Zero – Polity, July 2021”
I remember reading Lévi-Strauss about 25-ish years ago—Myth & Meaning and Structural Anthropology—, but not Structural Anthropology Zero. I’m pretty much past this phase, but I wonder what’s the difference between the Zero and naught. Is it like Coke—less sugar? haha
Me too. I was a cultural Anthro undergrad. Levi Strauss was prominent. But I never really comprehended anything in my undergrad. Lol. And now I’ve been read Foucault more. It’s like I’m moving back ward in time as a move forward now 🤖
I feel like since the 60s. People have been “thinking while high on psychedelics”. And now they are sobering up. Coming back down to earth. After Ww2. Everyone just wanted to party for a half century. Try and forget the reality of human nonsense. Lol.