Lauréat du 3e prix Claude Lévi-Strauss

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

Propriétés optiques non linéaires du 3e ordre des milieux organiques

2014 Optical nonlinear properties of semiconducting organic polymers with one dimensional 03C0 electron system are described. The third order nonlinear susceptibility of these polymers is specially high (#10-10 esu) and their time response very short (~ 1 ps ). Three and two photon resonances due to even and odd parity excited states are observed by third harmonic generation (THG) and by electr...

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...

HEBB AWARD WINNER 2010 / GAGNANT DU PRIX HEBB 2010 When Learning Met Memory

The first sentence of the introduction to Hebb’s (1949) classic monograph, The Organization of Behavior, is “It might be argued that the task of the psychologist, the task of understanding behaviour and reducing the vagaries of human thought to a mechanical process of cause and effect, is a more difficult one than that of any other scientist” (p. xi). Nowhere is this more true than in the realm...