Claude Lévi-Strauss, uma apresentação

Levi-strauss, Claude

Claude Lévi-Strauss’s theories have been fundamental to the renewal of modern anthropology, in particular the study of kinship systems, totemism, classification, and mythology. Throughout his works, he has sought to understand the functioning of so-called “primitive” modes of thought. In opposition to the theories formulated by influential predecessors such as Lucien LévyBruhl, he has revealed ...

Nevus sebáceo cerebriforme: uma rara apresentação*

A 13-year-old boy presented congenital, raised, yellowish colored plaques with fi broelastic consistency, which were velvety in appearance, alopecic, with clearly defi ned limits and sulci or well-marked meandering invaginations, a cerebriform appearance on the upper part of the right ear, accompanied by alopecia in the temporomandibular region-parietal. The lesion was asymptomatic. Histopathol...

CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS: The Man and His Works

Doja The shoulders of our giants : Claude Levi - Strauss and his legacy in current ́ anthropology

In the course of anti-structuralist criticism, the main thrust of LéviStrauss’s epistemological approach seems to have been lost, to the collective detriment of social sciences and anthropology. By its monumental character, Lévi-Strauss’s work evokes that of the founders of anthropology, whereas, by the way in which it puts in relation the cultural and the mental, it anticipates a theoretical a...

Eighteenth-Century Matrimonial Strategies and Emigration to the Americas The House of Berrio in La Bastide Clairence*

In a 1983 lecture at the Sorbonne entitled “History and Ethnology,” Claude LéviStrauss offered an example of the connection between these two disciplines based on his work on “house-based societies,” in which he compared eleventh-century Japan, the Fiji Islands, and medieval Europe.1 In his earlier work, Lévi-Strauss categorized kinship systems by using combinations of binary opposites, such as...