Claude Lévi-Strauss, our contemporary
International audience Let us begin with a photo: here, we see Claude Lévi-Strauss going up the Seine from Rouen to Paris in a canoe, accompanied by paddlers from the Haida tribe of British Columbia. [1] It is the fall of 1989, and the exhibition “The Americas of Claude Lévi-Strauss” is on display a...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-03456041v1 2023-07-30T04:03:58+02:00 Claude Lévi-Strauss, our contemporary Claude Lévi-Strauss, notre contemporain Loyer, Emmanuelle Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po (Sciences Po) (CHSP) Sciences Po (Sciences Po) 2019-11 https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03456041 https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03456041/document https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03456041/file/2019_Loyer_Berose_Levi-Strauss_Claude.pdf https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03456041/file/2019_Loyer_Levi-Strauss_Claude_EN.pdf fr fre HAL CCSD IIAC-LAHIC, CNRS / Ministère de la Culture. Direction des Patrimoines info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/hdl/2441/7hu3j2ovm78lhaedkalh0mc3ho hal-03456041 https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03456041 https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03456041/document https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03456041/file/2019_Loyer_Berose_Levi-Strauss_Claude.pdf https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03456041/file/2019_Loyer_Levi-Strauss_Claude_EN.pdf SCIENCESPO: 2441/7hu3j2ovm78lhaedkalh0mc3ho http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 2648-2770 Bérose - Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l'anthropologie https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03456041 Bérose - Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l'anthropologie, 2019 https://www.berose.fr/article1746.html Ethnographie Anthropologie Histoire de l’anthropologie française Biographie [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2019 ftccsdartic 2023-07-16T00:08:16Z International audience Let us begin with a photo: here, we see Claude Lévi-Strauss going up the Seine from Rouen to Paris in a canoe, accompanied by paddlers from the Haida tribe of British Columbia. [1] It is the fall of 1989, and the exhibition “The Americas of Claude Lévi-Strauss” is on display at the Musée de l’Homme. The 18-metre canoe, made from red cedar, was crafted by Native American-Canadian artist Bill Reid; it acts as a symbol of the indigenous art of the ancient Pacific Northwest in its prime. The canoe follows the Seine from Rouen to Paris, where the anthropologist joins the oarsmen before being received together at City Hall by the mayor at the time, Jacques Chirac. You have to imagine this scene. The press has given us a partial account: [2] for six days, the countryside of Normandy and then of Île-de-France slipped past Native American bodies; on the bank, French children with multicoloured feathers in their hair cried, “The Indians are coming! The Indians are coming!”; and finally, the incongruous arrival in an occidental city at the end of the twentieth century. The political power of this staging – to which Lévi-Strauss graciously submitted himself – lies in the slow revival of the past it is presenting, symbolically inverting the terms of the discovery: this time, it’s the Native Americans who come to meet the white men. The terrible encounter of the sixteenth century, often called the “discovery of America”, which for Lévi-Strauss inaugurated the cataclysm of modernity, is hereby replayed in reverse. What was done can be undone. The past comes back in a present that can, sometimes, act as redeemer. In any case, one can hope so. [.] Afin d’entrer dans le vif du sujet, commençons par une photographie : on y voit Claude Lévi-Strauss remontant la Seine de Rouen jusqu’à Paris, en pirogue en compagnie de pagayeurs indiens haïda venus de Colombie-Britannique [1]. Nous sommes à l’automne 1989, à l’occasion de l’exposition « Les Amériques de Claude Lévi-Strauss » qui se tient au Musée de ... Article in Journal/Newspaper haida haïda haïda* Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Île-de-France ENVELOPE(-17.875,-17.875,77.735,77.735) Pacific Rouen ENVELOPE(-70.883,-70.883,-69.167,-69.167) Strauss ENVELOPE(-73.182,-73.182,-71.649,-71.649) Venus ENVELOPE(-57.842,-57.842,-61.925,-61.925) Voit ENVELOPE(-65.530,-65.530,-66.658,-66.658) |
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International audience Let us begin with a photo: here, we see Claude Lévi-Strauss going up the Seine from Rouen to Paris in a canoe, accompanied by paddlers from the Haida tribe of British Columbia. [1] It is the fall of 1989, and the exhibition “The Americas of Claude Lévi-Strauss” is on display at the Musée de l’Homme. The 18-metre canoe, made from red cedar, was crafted by Native American-Canadian artist Bill Reid; it acts as a symbol of the indigenous art of the ancient Pacific Northwest in its prime. The canoe follows the Seine from Rouen to Paris, where the anthropologist joins the oarsmen before being received together at City Hall by the mayor at the time, Jacques Chirac. You have to imagine this scene. The press has given us a partial account: [2] for six days, the countryside of Normandy and then of Île-de-France slipped past Native American bodies; on the bank, French children with multicoloured feathers in their hair cried, “The Indians are coming! The Indians are coming!”; and finally, the incongruous arrival in an occidental city at the end of the twentieth century. The political power of this staging – to which Lévi-Strauss graciously submitted himself – lies in the slow revival of the past it is presenting, symbolically inverting the terms of the discovery: this time, it’s the Native Americans who come to meet the white men. The terrible encounter of the sixteenth century, often called the “discovery of America”, which for Lévi-Strauss inaugurated the cataclysm of modernity, is hereby replayed in reverse. What was done can be undone. The past comes back in a present that can, sometimes, act as redeemer. In any case, one can hope so. [.] Afin d’entrer dans le vif du sujet, commençons par une photographie : on y voit Claude Lévi-Strauss remontant la Seine de Rouen jusqu’à Paris, en pirogue en compagnie de pagayeurs indiens haïda venus de Colombie-Britannique [1]. Nous sommes à l’automne 1989, à l’occasion de l’exposition « Les Amériques de Claude Lévi-Strauss » qui se tient au Musée de ... |
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