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

• Published in: EchoGéo
• Main Author: Keck, Frédéric
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Pôle de recherche pour l'organisation et la diffusion de l'information géographique (CNRS UMR 8586) 2011
• Subjects: aire culturelle; anthropologie structurale; organisation dualiste; symbole; cultural area; dual organization; structural anthropology; symbol; hist; anthro-se; Strauss; Avian flu
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/9593

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...