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

• 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; Strauss; Avian flu
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/echogeo.9593; https://doaj.org/article/d78605e5d42a44d1a24b20e741a0627f

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...