Lévi-Strauss et l’Asie. L’anthropologie structurale « out of America »

This article analyzes the role of Asia in Lévi-Strauss’s works, and draw conclusions for a structural anthropology of this continent. If Lévi-Strauss seems to devalorize Asia in the literary meditation of Tristes tropiques, he revalorizes it in his scientific writings, seeing it as a continuation of...

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Published in:EchoGéo
Main Author: Frédéric Keck
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:French
Published: Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la diffusion de l'Information Géographique
Subjects:
structural anthropology
symbol
dual organization
cultural area
Geography (General)
G1-922
Avian flu
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4000/echogeo.9593
https://doaj.org/article/d78605e5d42a44d1a24b20e741a0627f
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Summary:This article analyzes the role of Asia in Lévi-Strauss’s works, and draw conclusions for a structural anthropology of this continent. If Lévi-Strauss seems to devalorize Asia in the literary meditation of Tristes tropiques, he revalorizes it in his scientific writings, seeing it as a continuation of America where phenomena of division and transformation of societies occur with greater length. This link between America and Asia leads Lévi-Strauss to criticize the Durkheimian focalization on Australia and to leave aside the African continent. The last part of the article draws from there hypotheses for an anthropology of Avian flu.

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