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“
Voyages = même chose et contraire d’une psychoanalyse
”: “
Tristes Tropiques
: Docs préparatoires 10/10 carnet vert,” Archives de Lévi-Strauss, Bibliothèque national de France, p. 56.
“
Voyages = même chose et contraire d’une psychoanalyse
”: “
Tristes Tropiques
: Docs préparatoires 10/10 carnet vert,” Archives de Lévi-Strauss, Bibliothèque national de France, p. 56.
9
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 256: “In this charming civilisation, the female beauties trace the outlines of the collective dream with their make-up; their patterns are hieroglyphics describing an inaccessible golden age, which they extol in their ornamentation, since they have no code in which to express it, and whose mysteries they disclose as they reveal their nudity.”
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 256: “In this charming civilisation, the female beauties trace the outlines of the collective dream with their make-up; their patterns are hieroglyphics describing an inaccessible golden age, which they extol in their ornamentation, since they have no code in which to express it, and whose mysteries they disclose as they reveal their nudity.”
10
Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, p. 1695.
Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, p. 1695.
11
“
Que sont nos poudres et nos rouges à côté!
”: “
Tristes Tropiques
: vol. 2 de la dactylographie,” Archives de Lévi-Strauss, Bibliothèque nationale de France, p. 200.
“
Que sont nos poudres et nos rouges à côté!
”: “
Tristes Tropiques
: vol. 2 de la dactylographie,” Archives de Lévi-Strauss, Bibliothèque nationale de France, p. 200.
12
Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, pp. 1746, 1769.
Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, pp. 1746, 1769.
13
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 15-16.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 15-16.
14
Lévi-Strauss cited in Grupioni,
Coleções e expedições vigiadas
, p. 150.
Lévi-Strauss cited in Grupioni,
Coleções e expedições vigiadas
, p. 150.
15
Cited in Pace,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, pp. 20-21.
Cited in Pace,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, pp. 20-21.
16
Lévi-Strauss in Boutang and Chevallay,
Claude Lévi-Strauss in His Own Words
, 1:04:50.
Lévi-Strauss in Boutang and Chevallay,
Claude Lévi-Strauss in His Own Words
, 1:04:50.
17
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 43.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 43.
18
Tragically, much later the Nambikwara would suffer the side effects of cooking food in empty drums of DDT.
Tragically, much later the Nambikwara would suffer the side effects of cooking food in empty drums of DDT.
19
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, pp. 534-35.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, pp. 534-35.
20
Ibid., p. 348.
Ibid., p. 348.
21
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, 1989, p. 256.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, 1989, p. 256.
22
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Des Indiens et leur ethnographe,”
Les Temps modernes
, no. 116, August 1955, pp. 1-50.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, “Des Indiens et leur ethnographe,”
Les Temps modernes
, no. 116, August 1955, pp. 1-50.
23
Lévi-Strauss, “Des Indiens et leur ethnographe,”
Les Temps modernes
, no. 116, August 1955, p. 1; translation from Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 229.
Lévi-Strauss, “Des Indiens et leur ethnographe,”
Les Temps modernes
, no. 116, August 1955, p. 1; translation from Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 229.
24
“shopgirl metaphysics”: Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 71; “
métaphysique pour midinette
”: Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Plon, p. 63.
“shopgirl metaphysics”: Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 71; “
métaphysique pour midinette
”: Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Plon, p. 63.
25
This is according to Jean Pouillon, Sartre’s friend and fellow editorial board member of
Les Temps modernes
; see Dosse,
History of Structuralism
, vol. 1, p. 7. Despite the apparent disjuncture,
Les Temps modernes
would continue to publish essays by Lévi-Strauss, as well as commentaries on his work.
This is according to Jean Pouillon, Sartre’s friend and fellow editorial board member of
Les Temps modernes
; see Dosse,
History of Structuralism
, vol. 1, p. 7. Despite the apparent disjuncture,
Les Temps modernes
would continue to publish essays by Lévi-Strauss, as well as commentaries on his work.
26
For a summary of reviews of
Tristes Tropiques
in the French press, see Dosse,
History of Structuralism
, vol. 61, p. 133; Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 219.
For a summary of reviews of
Tristes Tropiques
in the French press, see Dosse,
History of Structuralism
, vol. 61, p. 133; Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 219.
27
Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, p. 1717.
Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, p. 1717.
28
John Peristiany, “Social Anatomy,”
Times Literary Supplement
, February, 22 1957; David Holden, “Hamlet among the Savages,”
Times Literary Supplement
, May 12, 1961.
John Peristiany, “Social Anatomy,”
Times Literary Supplement
, February, 22 1957; David Holden, “Hamlet among the Savages,”
Times Literary Supplement
, May 12, 1961.
29
Susan Sontag, “A Hero of Our Time,”
New York Review of Books
, vol. 1, no. 7, November 28, 1963.
Susan Sontag, “A Hero of Our Time,”
New York Review of Books
, vol. 1, no. 7, November 28, 1963.
30
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 59.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 59.
31
Interview with Luc de Heusch by Pierre de Maret,
Current Anthropology
, vol. 34, no. 3, June 1993, pp. 290-91.
Interview with Luc de Heusch by Pierre de Maret,
Current Anthropology
, vol. 34, no. 3, June 1993, pp. 290-91.
32
Jean Pouillon, “L’Oeuvre de Claude Lévi-Strauss,”
Les Temps modernes
, no. 126, July 1956, pp. 150-73.
Jean Pouillon, “L’Oeuvre de Claude Lévi-Strauss,”
Les Temps modernes
, no. 126, July 1956, pp. 150-73.
33
Dosse,
History of Structuralism
, vol. 1, p. 137.
Dosse,
History of Structuralism
, vol. 1, p. 137.
34
Ibid., p. 266.
Ibid., p. 266.
35
Lévi-Strauss did intervene on one further occasion in 1968. He joined more than a hundred other academics, including Michel Leiris, Louis Dumont, Maxime Rodinson and Georges Balandier, in signing an open letter to the Brazilian military dictator, General da Costa e Silva, denouncing the atrocities suffered by the Brazilian indigenous peoples after a string of accusations of torture and murder were made against the Serviço de Proteção aos Índios (Indian Protection Service).
Lévi-Strauss did intervene on one further occasion in 1968. He joined more than a hundred other academics, including Michel Leiris, Louis Dumont, Maxime Rodinson and Georges Balandier, in signing an open letter to the Brazilian military dictator, General da Costa e Silva, denouncing the atrocities suffered by the Brazilian indigenous peoples after a string of accusations of torture and murder were made against the Serviço de Proteção aos Índios (Indian Protection Service).
36
Georges Charbonnier,
Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss
, John and Doreen Weightman, trans. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969), p. 13.
Georges Charbonnier,
Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss
, John and Doreen Weightman, trans. (London: Jonathan Cape, 1969), p. 13.
37
These included avant-garde musician Pierre Boulez, actress Simone Signoret, writer Marguerite Duras and Lévi-Strauss’s colleagues and friends Jean Pouillon and Michel Leiris.
These included avant-garde musician Pierre Boulez, actress Simone Signoret, writer Marguerite Duras and Lévi-Strauss’s colleagues and friends Jean Pouillon and Michel Leiris.
38
Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 230.
Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 230.
39
Ibid.
Ibid.
40
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 59.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 59.
41
“After
Tristes Tropiques
there were times when I imagined that someone in the press was going to ask me to travel and write,” he later confessed, in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 159.
“After
Tristes Tropiques
there were times when I imagined that someone in the press was going to ask me to travel and write,” he later confessed, in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 159.
42
Lévi-Strauss cited in Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 220.
Lévi-Strauss cited in Bertholet,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, p. 220.
43
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 529.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 529.
44
Ibid., p. 530.
Ibid., p. 530.
45
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 7.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 7.
46
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 539.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 539.
47
See I. Strenski, “Lévi-Strauss and the Buddhists,”
Comparative Studies in Society and History
, vol. 22, 1980, pp. 3-22.
See I. Strenski, “Lévi-Strauss and the Buddhists,”
Comparative Studies in Society and History
, vol. 22, 1980, pp. 3-22.
48
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 542; Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, 2007, p. 442.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 542; Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, 2007, p. 442.
49
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 541.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 541.
50
Ibid., p. 543.
Ibid., p. 543.
51
Ibid., p. 544.
Ibid., p. 544.
1
Karlheinz Stockhausen cited in Ivan Hewett, “Karlheinz Stockhausen Obituary,”
Guardian
, December 7, 2007.
Karlheinz Stockhausen cited in Ivan Hewett, “Karlheinz Stockhausen Obituary,”
Guardian
, December 7, 2007.
2
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 157.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 157.
3
Lévi-Strauss, interview with the author, March 2005.
Lévi-Strauss, interview with the author, March 2005.
4
Alex Ross,
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
(London: Fourth Estate, 2008), p. 392.
Alex Ross,
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
(London: Fourth Estate, 2008), p. 392.
5
Kristin Ross,
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture
(Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press, 1995), p. 2.
Kristin Ross,
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture
(Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press, 1995), p. 2.
6
Dosse,
History of Structuralism
, vol. 1, p. 105.
Dosse,
History of Structuralism
, vol. 1, p. 105.
7
Fernand Braudel,
On History
.
Fernand Braudel,
On History
.
8
Lévi-Strauss in Elisabeth Roudinesco,
Jacques Lacan & Co
, p. 362.
Lévi-Strauss in Elisabeth Roudinesco,
Jacques Lacan & Co
, p. 362.
9
Lévi-Strauss, interview with the author, February 2007.
Lévi-Strauss, interview with the author, February 2007.
10
Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, p. 207.
Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, p. 207.
11
Edmund Leach,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
(London: Fontana/Collins, 1974), p. 65.
Edmund Leach,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
(London: Fontana/Collins, 1974), p. 65.
12
Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, p. 228.
Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, p. 228.
13
In 1969, Lévi-Strauss told Canadian researcher Pierre Maranda that he “has never seen it as anything more than ‘a drawing’ to illustrate the ‘double twist’ which is translated with respect to the passage from metaphors to metonymies and vice versa,” in Elli K. Maranda and Pierre Maranda,
Structural Models in Folklore and Transformational Essays
(The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1971), p. 28.
In 1969, Lévi-Strauss told Canadian researcher Pierre Maranda that he “has never seen it as anything more than ‘a drawing’ to illustrate the ‘double twist’ which is translated with respect to the passage from metaphors to metonymies and vice versa,” in Elli K. Maranda and Pierre Maranda,
Structural Models in Folklore and Transformational Essays
(The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1971), p. 28.
14
This point is taken from Dan Sperber, “Claude Lévi-Strauss Today,”
On Anthropological Knowledge
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 65-66. For Sperber, in using the words “never ceased to be guided” by his formula, Lévi-Strauss “sounds not like a scientist but rather like a transcendental meditator claiming to be guided by his mantra.”
This point is taken from Dan Sperber, “Claude Lévi-Strauss Today,”
On Anthropological Knowledge
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 65-66. For Sperber, in using the words “never ceased to be guided” by his formula, Lévi-Strauss “sounds not like a scientist but rather like a transcendental meditator claiming to be guided by his mantra.”
15
Lévi-Strauss, “The Story of Asdiwal,”
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 2, p. 184.
Lévi-Strauss, “The Story of Asdiwal,”
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 2, p. 184.
16
Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, p. 229.
Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, p. 229.
17
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 70.
Lévi-Strauss,
Tristes Tropiques
, Picador, p. 70.
18
Dosse,
History of Structuralism
, vol. 1, p. 160.
Dosse,
History of Structuralism
, vol. 1, p. 160.
19
Foucault in ibid., p. 160.
Foucault in ibid., p. 160.
20
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 68.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 68.
21
Although later Gallimard managed to publish a collection of essays and commentaries, as well as reissue
Race et histoire
for its Folio collection; see Raymond Bellour and Catherine Clément, eds.,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
(Paris: Gallimard, 1979); Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Race et histoire
(Paris: Gallimard, 1987). At the end of Lévi-Strauss’s life, Gallimard also published a collection of his works in the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, see Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, eds. Vincent Debaene et al. (Paris: Gallimard, 2007).
Although later Gallimard managed to publish a collection of essays and commentaries, as well as reissue
Race et histoire
for its Folio collection; see Raymond Bellour and Catherine Clément, eds.,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
(Paris: Gallimard, 1979); Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Race et histoire
(Paris: Gallimard, 1987). At the end of Lévi-Strauss’s life, Gallimard also published a collection of his works in the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, see Claude Lévi-Strauss,
Oeuvres
, eds. Vincent Debaene et al. (Paris: Gallimard, 2007).
22
Like his attacks on Caillois, these were rhetorical salvos. He dismissed the sociologist Georges Gurvitch, who had branded his attempts to mathematically model social relations “a complete failure,” as unqualified to comment on advances in anthropology. A similar ploy was used against Jean-François Revel, while Rodinson’s Marxist critique was batted straight back with the taunt “My conception is infinitely closer to Marx’s position than his,” based on a somewhat selective reading of
Das Kapital
. Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, p. 338; Pace,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, pp. 96-99.
Like his attacks on Caillois, these were rhetorical salvos. He dismissed the sociologist Georges Gurvitch, who had branded his attempts to mathematically model social relations “a complete failure,” as unqualified to comment on advances in anthropology. A similar ploy was used against Jean-François Revel, while Rodinson’s Marxist critique was batted straight back with the taunt “My conception is infinitely closer to Marx’s position than his,” based on a somewhat selective reading of
Das Kapital
. Lévi-Strauss,
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 1, p. 338; Pace,
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, pp. 96-99.
23
Beatriz Perrone Moisés, “Entrevista: Claude Lévi-Strauss, aos 90,”
Revista de antropologia
, vol. 42, no. 1-2, 1999.
Beatriz Perrone Moisés, “Entrevista: Claude Lévi-Strauss, aos 90,”
Revista de antropologia
, vol. 42, no. 1-2, 1999.
24
See Kristin Ross,
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies
, p. 186.
See Kristin Ross,
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies
, p. 186.
25
Despite the subject matter of his work, Marcel Mauss had occupied the sociology chair.
Despite the subject matter of his work, Marcel Mauss had occupied the sociology chair.
26
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 60.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 60.
27
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 61; Claude Lévi-Strauss and Didier Eribon,
De près et de loin
(Paris: Éditions Odile Jacob, 1988), p. 90.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 61; Claude Lévi-Strauss and Didier Eribon,
De près et de loin
(Paris: Éditions Odile Jacob, 1988), p. 90.
28
Lévi-Strauss, “The Scope of Anthropology,”
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 2, pp. 7-8; Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 61.
Lévi-Strauss, “The Scope of Anthropology,”
Structural Anthropology
, vol. 2, pp. 7-8; Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 61.
29
Lévi-Strauss, “The Scope of Anthropology,” pp. 6-7.
Lévi-Strauss, “The Scope of Anthropology,” pp. 6-7.
30
Ibid., p. 17.
Ibid., p. 17.
31
Ibid., p. 32.
Ibid., p. 32.
32
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 63.
Lévi-Strauss in Eribon,
Conversations
, p. 63.
33
The Area Files were not without their critics. Margaret Mead apparently described the catalogs as “instant anthropology like instant coffee,” cited in Isac Chiva, “Une communauté de solitaires: le Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale,” in
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, ed. Izard, p. 74.
The Area Files were not without their critics. Margaret Mead apparently described the catalogs as “instant anthropology like instant coffee,” cited in Isac Chiva, “Une communauté de solitaires: le Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale,” in
Claude Lévi-Strauss
, ed. Izard, p. 74.
34
Isac Chiva, “Une communauté de solitaires: le Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale,” p. 68; Susan Sontag, “The Anthropologist as Hero,” in
The Anthropologist as Hero
, ed. Hayes and Hayes, p. 186.
Isac Chiva, “Une communauté de solitaires: le Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale,” p. 68; Susan Sontag, “The Anthropologist as Hero,” in
The Anthropologist as Hero
, ed. Hayes and Hayes, p. 186.
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