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21
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 25.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 25.
22
Ibid.
Ibid.
23
Victor Serge cited in Mark Polizzotti,
A Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton
(London: Bloomsbury, 1995), p. 494.
Victor Serge cited in Mark Polizzotti,
A Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton
(London: Bloomsbury, 1995), p. 494.
24
Victor Serge cited in Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, p. 1736.
Victor Serge cited in Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, p. 1736.
25
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 26.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 26.
26
Lévi-Strauss, interview with the author, February 2007.
Lévi-Strauss, interview with the author, February 2007.
27
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, pp. 25-26.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, pp. 25-26.
28
See Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Look, Listen, Read
(New York: Basic Books, 1997), pp. 143-51; “
prise de conscience irrationelle
”: Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Regarder, écouter, lire
(Paris: Plon, 1993), p. 141.
See Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Look, Listen, Read
(New York: Basic Books, 1997), pp. 143-51; “
prise de conscience irrationelle
”: Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Regarder, écouter, lire
(Paris: Plon, 1993), p. 141.
29
Breton in Polizzotti,
Revolution of the Mind
, p. 496.
Breton in Polizzotti,
Revolution of the Mind
, p. 496.
30
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, pp. 27-28.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, pp. 27-28.
31
Ibid., p. 26.
Ibid., p. 26.
32
Claude Lévi-Strauss in Paul Hendrickson, “Behemoth from the Ivory Tower,”
Washington Post
, February 24, 1978.
Claude Lévi-Strauss in Paul Hendrickson, “Behemoth from the Ivory Tower,”
Washington Post
, February 24, 1978.
33
Polizzotti,
Revolution of the Mind
, p. 497.
Polizzotti,
Revolution of the Mind
, p. 497.
34
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 39; Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, p. 1736.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 39; Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, p. 1736.
35
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 40.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 40.
36
Lévi-Strauss,
The View from Afar
, pp. 259-60.
Lévi-Strauss,
The View from Afar
, pp. 259-60.
37
Ibid., p. 259.
Ibid., p. 259.
38
Ibid., p. 263.
Ibid., p. 263.
39
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Anthropology: Its Achievements and Future,”
Nature
, vol. 209, no. 5018, January 1966, p. 10.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Anthropology: Its Achievements and Future,”
Nature
, vol. 209, no. 5018, January 1966, p. 10.
40
Lévi-Strauss in Tom Shandel,
Behind the Masks
, National Film Board of Canada, 1973.
Lévi-Strauss in Tom Shandel,
Behind the Masks
, National Film Board of Canada, 1973.
41
Claude Lévi-Strauss,
The Way of the Masks
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1983), p. 10.
Claude Lévi-Strauss,
The Way of the Masks
(London: Jonathan Cape, 1983), p. 10.
42
Waldberg in Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 133.
Waldberg in Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 133.
43
This, according to the recollections of Claudine Herrmann—who was tutored by Lévi-Strauss in New York and ended up working for him, typing up his index cards for “a fantastic salary of three dollars an hour”—in
Lévi-Strauss: l’homme derrière l’oeuvre
, ed. Joulia, pp. 20-21.
This, according to the recollections of Claudine Herrmann—who was tutored by Lévi-Strauss in New York and ended up working for him, typing up his index cards for “a fantastic salary of three dollars an hour”—in
Lévi-Strauss: l’homme derrière l’oeuvre
, ed. Joulia, pp. 20-21.
44
See picture inset between pages 264 and 265 in
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, ed. Michel Izard, (Paris: L’Herne, 2004).
See picture inset between pages 264 and 265 in
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, ed. Michel Izard, (Paris: L’Herne, 2004).
45
Lévi-Strauss,
The View from Afar
, p. 260.
Lévi-Strauss,
The View from Afar
, p. 260.
46
Sawin,
Surrealism in Exile
, p. 185.
Sawin,
Surrealism in Exile
, p. 185.
47
Interview with Lévi-Strauss,
Boîte aux lettres
.
Interview with Lévi-Strauss,
Boîte aux lettres
.
48
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 31.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 31.
49
Waldberg in Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 142.
Waldberg in Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 142.
50
Ibid., p. 143.
Ibid., p. 143.
51
Bill Holm and Bill Reid,
Indian Art of the Northwest Coast: A Dialogue on Craftsmanship and Aesthetics
, (Houston: Institute of the Arts, Rice University, 1975), pp. 9-10.
Bill Holm and Bill Reid,
Indian Art of the Northwest Coast: A Dialogue on Craftsmanship and Aesthetics
, (Houston: Institute of the Arts, Rice University, 1975), pp. 9-10.
52
Lévi-Strauss,
The View from Afar
, pp. 260-61.
Lévi-Strauss,
The View from Afar
, pp. 260-61.
53
VVV: Poetry, Plastic Arts, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology
, no. 1, 1942, p. 2.
VVV: Poetry, Plastic Arts, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology
, no. 1, 1942, p. 2.
54
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Indian Cosmetics,”
VVV
, no. 1, 1942, pp. 33-35.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Indian Cosmetics,”
VVV
, no. 1, 1942, pp. 33-35.
55
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Souvenir of Malinowsky [
sic
],”
VVV
, no. 1, 1942, p. 45.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Souvenir of Malinowsky [
sic
],”
VVV
, no. 1, 1942, p. 45.
56
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 36.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 36.
57
Claude Lévi-Strauss,
The Scope of Anthropology
, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967), p. 44.
Claude Lévi-Strauss,
The Scope of Anthropology
, (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967), p. 44.
58
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 38.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 38.
59
Ibid., p. 30.
Ibid., p. 30.
60
Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott,
New School: a History of the New School for Social Research
(New York: Free Press, 1986); Claus-Deiter Krohn,
Intellectuals in Exile: Refugee Scholars and the New School for Social Research
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993); Emmanuelle Loyer,
Paris à New York
:
intellectuels et artistes français en exil (1940-1947),
(Paris : Grasset, 2005).
Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott,
New School: a History of the New School for Social Research
(New York: Free Press, 1986); Claus-Deiter Krohn,
Intellectuals in Exile: Refugee Scholars and the New School for Social Research
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993); Emmanuelle Loyer,
Paris à New York
:
intellectuels et artistes français en exil (1940-1947),
(Paris : Grasset, 2005).
61
Isabelle Waldberg in Patrick Waldberg,
Un amour acéphale: correspondance 1940- 1949
(Paris: Éditions de La Différance, 1992), pp. 184-85.
Isabelle Waldberg in Patrick Waldberg,
Un amour acéphale: correspondance 1940- 1949
(Paris: Éditions de La Différance, 1992), pp. 184-85.
62
Lévi-Strauss,
The View from Afar
, p. 102.
Lévi-Strauss,
The View from Afar
, p. 102.
63
The Marx comparison is taken from Robert Parkin, “Structuralism and Marxism,” in
One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French and American Anthropology
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), p. 209.
The Marx comparison is taken from Robert Parkin, “Structuralism and Marxism,” in
One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French and American Anthropology
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), p. 209.
64
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 43.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 43.
65
Lévi-Strauss,
The View from Afar
, p. 267.
Lévi-Strauss,
The View from Afar
, p. 267.
66
See, for instance, Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini,
What Darwin Got Wrong
(London: Profile Books, 2010).
See, for instance, Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini,
What Darwin Got Wrong
(London: Profile Books, 2010).
67
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 41.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 41.
68
François Dosse,
History of Structuralism
, vol. 1,
The Rising Sign, 1945-1966
(Minneapolis, Minn., and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), p. 53.
François Dosse,
History of Structuralism
, vol. 1,
The Rising Sign, 1945-1966
(Minneapolis, Minn., and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), p. 53.
69
Bengt Jangfeldt, “Roman Jacobson in Sweden 1940-41,”
Cahiers de l’ILSL
, no. 9, pp. 141-49; Andrew Lass, “Poetry and Reality: Roman O. Jakobson and Claude Lévi-Strauss,” in
Artists, Intellectuals and World War II: The Pontigny Encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-1944
, ed. Christopher Benfey and Karen Remmler (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006), pp. 173-84.
Bengt Jangfeldt, “Roman Jacobson in Sweden 1940-41,”
Cahiers de l’ILSL
, no. 9, pp. 141-49; Andrew Lass, “Poetry and Reality: Roman O. Jakobson and Claude Lévi-Strauss,” in
Artists, Intellectuals and World War II: The Pontigny Encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-1944
, ed. Christopher Benfey and Karen Remmler (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006), pp. 173-84.
70
Lévi-Strauss, “Cahiers du terrain,” Archives de Lévi-Strauss, Bibliothèque nationale de France, boxes 4-6; “
langue semble différente
”: “Cahiers du terrain,” Campos Novos (2e quinzaine août 1938), box 6.
Lévi-Strauss, “Cahiers du terrain,” Archives de Lévi-Strauss, Bibliothèque nationale de France, boxes 4-6; “
langue semble différente
”: “Cahiers du terrain,” Campos Novos (2e quinzaine août 1938), box 6.
71
Lévi-Strauss, interview for
L’Express
, in
Diacritics
, p. 47.
Lévi-Strauss, interview for
L’Express
, in
Diacritics
, p. 47.
72
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 114.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 114.
73
Roman Jakobson,
Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning
(Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1978), p. 19.
Roman Jakobson,
Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning
(Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1978), p. 19.
74
Ibid., p. 20.
Ibid., p. 20.
75
Ibid., p. 66.
Ibid., p. 66.
76
Lévi-Strauss in ibid., “Preface,” p. xiii.
Lévi-Strauss in ibid., “Preface,” p. xiii.
1
Lévi-Strauss, “The family,” in
Man, Culture and Society
, Harry L. Shapiro, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 357.
Lévi-Strauss, “The family,” in
Man, Culture and Society
, Harry L. Shapiro, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 357.
2
Fournier,
Marcel Mauss
, p. 345.
Fournier,
Marcel Mauss
, p. 345.
3
Lévi-Strauss in Jean-Marie Benoît, “Claude Lévi-Strauss Reconsiders: From Rousseau to Burke,”
Encounter
, no. 53, July 1979, p. 20.
Lévi-Strauss in Jean-Marie Benoît, “Claude Lévi-Strauss Reconsiders: From Rousseau to Burke,”
Encounter
, no. 53, July 1979, p. 20.
4
Denis de Rougemont,
Journal des deux mondes
(Paris: Gallimard, 1948), pp. 151-53.
Denis de Rougemont,
Journal des deux mondes
(Paris: Gallimard, 1948), pp. 151-53.
5
Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, pp. 226, 257.
Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, pp. 226, 257.
6
Ibid., p. 261.
Ibid., p. 261.
7
Lévi-Strauss in
Le Magazine littéraire
, no. 223, October 1985, p. 23.
Lévi-Strauss in
Le Magazine littéraire
, no. 223, October 1985, p. 23.
8
Mehlman,
Emigré New York
, p. 133.
Mehlman,
Emigré New York
, p. 133.
9
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 5.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 5.
10
Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, p. 1689.
Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, p. 1689.
11
Ibid., p. 46.
Ibid., p. 46.
12
Lévi-Strauss, “Autoportrait,” p. 13.
Lévi-Strauss, “Autoportrait,” p. 13.
13
Maurice Merleau-Ponty,
The Phenomenology of Perception
(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962), pp. 91-93.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty,
The Phenomenology of Perception
(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962), pp. 91-93.
14
Mehlman,
Emigré New York
, p. 184.
Mehlman,
Emigré New York
, p. 184.
15
Ibid., p. 181.
Ibid., p. 181.
16
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 45.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 45.
17
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “L’Analyse structurale en linguistique et en anthropologie,”
Word: Journal of the Linguistic Circle of New York
, vol. 1, no. 2, August 1945, pp. 1-21, reprinted in
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, pp. 31-54.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “L’Analyse structurale en linguistique et en anthropologie,”
Word: Journal of the Linguistic Circle of New York
, vol. 1, no. 2, August 1945, pp. 1-21, reprinted in
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, pp. 31-54.
18
Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, pp. 34, 46.
Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, pp. 34, 46.
19
That is, societies in which descent is traced through the mother.
That is, societies in which descent is traced through the mother.
20
For Lévi-Strauss, the maternal uncle was a structural shorthand for a “wife-giver”—a role that could fall to others in the group. See his clarification of this point in Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 2, Monique Layton, trans. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978), p. 83.
For Lévi-Strauss, the maternal uncle was a structural shorthand for a “wife-giver”—a role that could fall to others in the group. See his clarification of this point in Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 2, Monique Layton, trans. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978), p. 83.
21
Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, p. 42.
Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, p. 42.
22
Thanks go to my brother Hugo for this sentence.
Thanks go to my brother Hugo for this sentence.
23
Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, p. 50.
Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, p. 50.
24
Annie Cohen-Solal, “Claude L. Strauss in the United States,”
Partisan Review
, vol. 67, no. 2, 2000, p. 258.
Annie Cohen-Solal, “Claude L. Strauss in the United States,”
Partisan Review
, vol. 67, no. 2, 2000, p. 258.
25
Lévi-Strauss,
The Way of the Masks
, p. 10.
Lévi-Strauss,
The Way of the Masks
, p. 10.
26
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 48.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 48.
27
Lévi-Strauss in Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 162.
Lévi-Strauss in Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 162.
28
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “The Use of Wild Plants in Tropical South America,”
Handbook of South American Indians: Physical Anthropology, Linguistics and Cultural Geography of the South American Indians
, vol. 6, ed. Julian Steward (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1963), pp. 465-86.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “The Use of Wild Plants in Tropical South America,”
Handbook of South American Indians: Physical Anthropology, Linguistics and Cultural Geography of the South American Indians
, vol. 6, ed. Julian Steward (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1963), pp. 465-86.
29
Cohen-Solal, “Claude L. Strauss in the United States,” pp. 258-59.
Cohen-Solal, “Claude L. Strauss in the United States,” pp. 258-59.
30
Lévi-Strauss,
The View from Afar
, p. 266.
Lévi-Strauss,
The View from Afar
, p. 266.
31
Entry dated March 13, 1947, in Métraux,
Itinéraires 1
, p. 171.
Entry dated March 13, 1947, in Métraux,
Itinéraires 1
, p. 171.
32
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 56.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 56.
33
Cited in James Atlas,
Bellow: A Biography
(London: Faber & Faber, 2000), p. 138.
Cited in James Atlas,
Bellow: A Biography
(London: Faber & Faber, 2000), p. 138.
34
Michel Foucault in David Macey,
The Lives of Michel Foucault
(London: Hutchinson, 1993), p. 33.
Michel Foucault in David Macey,
The Lives of Michel Foucault
(London: Hutchinson, 1993), p. 33.
35
Lévi-Strauss cited in Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 180.
Lévi-Strauss cited in Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 180.
36
In Fournier,
Marcel Mauss
, pp. 349, 423.
In Fournier,
Marcel Mauss
, pp. 349, 423.
37
Le Magazine littéraire
, no. 223, October 1985, p. 23.
Le Magazine littéraire
, no. 223, October 1985, p. 23.
38
Lévi-Strauss,
The Elementary Structures of Kinship,
James Harle Bell, John Richard von Sturmer, and Rodney Needham, trans. (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1969), p. 125. Lévi-Strauss cites Australian anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner, though selectively. When Stanner began fieldwork in the Daly River settlement in the Northern Territory in 1932, he wrote: “I was impressed by their genuine bewilderment and the comical expressions they wore when they found, after a vain attempt to work out the terms by clear marks in the soil, that they could not remember.” See Melinda Hinkson, “The Intercultural Challenge of W. E. H. Stanner’s First Fieldwork,”
Oceania
, vol. 75, no. 3, March-June 2005, p. 198.
Lévi-Strauss,
The Elementary Structures of Kinship,
James Harle Bell, John Richard von Sturmer, and Rodney Needham, trans. (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1969), p. 125. Lévi-Strauss cites Australian anthropologist W. E. H. Stanner, though selectively. When Stanner began fieldwork in the Daly River settlement in the Northern Territory in 1932, he wrote: “I was impressed by their genuine bewilderment and the comical expressions they wore when they found, after a vain attempt to work out the terms by clear marks in the soil, that they could not remember.” See Melinda Hinkson, “The Intercultural Challenge of W. E. H. Stanner’s First Fieldwork,”
Oceania
, vol. 75, no. 3, March-June 2005, p. 198.
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