Claude Lévi-Strauss vu par Philippe Descola

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 ...

CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS: The Man and His Works

Context-free Event Domains Are Recognizable Eric Badouel Philippe Darondeau and Jean-claude Raoult

The possibly non distributive event domains which arise from Winskel's event structures with binary connict are known to coincide with the domains of conngurations of Stark's trace automata. We prove that whenever the transitive reduction of the order on nite elements in an event domain is a context-free graph in the sense of M uller and Schupp, that event domain may also be generated from a ni...

Sylvain Fourmaux , Stéphane Payeur , Philippe Lassonde , Jean - Claude Kieffer and François Martin

Extreme laser peak intensities can be produced with current laser technology, using both the chirped pulse amplification (CPA) technique (Strickland & Mourou, 1985) and Ti:Sapphire amplification crystals (Le Blanc et al., 1993). Laser systems using this technology are commercially providing instantaneous power in excess of 100 TW with a laser pulse duration ∼30 fs and energy per pulse of severa...

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...