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caricature of
 
ceremonial events disliked by
 
coherent theoretical outlook of
 
conservative opinions of
 
culture universals derived by
 
doctoral thesis of
 
global fame of
 
historical approaches rejected by
 
influence of
 
intellectual
trois maîtresses
of
 
journalism career considered by
 
lecture style of
 
method of
 
philosophical orientation of
 
political involvement avoided by
 
progressive isolation of
 
prose style of
 
public persona of
 
racism as viewed by
 
retirement of
 
“sensible” vs. “intelligible” sought by
 
stature of
 
theoretical radicalism of
 
TV art programming interviews of
 
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, as exile in New York City
 
antique Tuscan sideboard purchased by
 
ethnographic materials brought by
 
French surrealist emigrés and
 
at New York Public Library
 
teaching positions of
 
transatlantic journey of
 
on Voice of America
 
see also
New York, N.Y.
 
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, in early years
 
abortive political campaign of
 
agrégation
passed by
 
anti-Semitism encountered by
 
artistic sensibility of
 
astrology book purchased by
 
avant-garde influence on
 
Cahen’s assessment of
 
childhood of
 
dissertation of
 
extended family of
 
Frazer’s 1928 lecture missed by
 
Freud’s influence on
 
hiking of
 
law studies of
 
literature read by
 
at Lycée Condorcet’s
hypokhâgne
 
at Lycée Janson de Sailly
 
military service of
 
miniature Japanese furniture collected by
 
musical interests of
 
philosophy studies of
n
-
n
 
political idealism of
 
reality vs. analytical subtext in thinking of
 
at Sorbonne
 
teaching career of
 
Lévi-Strauss, Dina Dreyfus
 
ethnography course taught by
 
eye infection contracted by
 
fieldwork of
 
fieldwork techniques taught by
 
in French Resistance
 
marital relationship of
 
marital separation of
 
in São Paulo
 
teaching career of
 
wedding of
 
Lévi-Strauss, Emma Lévy Lévi-Strauss, Laurent
 
Lévi-Strauss, Matthieu
 
Lévi-Strauss, Monique Roman
 
Lévi-Strauss, Raymond
 
abandoned silk farm purchased by
 
bourgeois lifestyle of
 
CLS painted by
 
death of
 
Exposition coloniale Madagascan pavilion decorated by
 
financial problems of
 
modernism as ruinous to
 
at São Paulo
 
in World War II,
 
Lévi Strauss, Rose-Marie Ullmo
 
Lévy, Rabbi
 
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien
 
Lewisohn, Ludwig
 
Lewitzsky, Anatole
 
linguistics
 
anthropology and
 
sound analysis in
 
see also
structural linguistics
 
Linton, Ralph
 
Lipkind, William
 
Livingstone, David
 
Loewenstein, Rudolph
 
logical positivism
 
Lomax, John
 
Lourau, René
 
Lowie, Robert
 
 
Mac Orlan, Pierre
 
Maheu, René
 
Malaurie, Jean
 
Malinowski, Bronislaw
 
CLS’s tribute to
 
functionalist approach of
 
Mallarmé, Stéphane
 
Manifesto antropófago
(
Cannibalist Manifesto
) (Andrade)
 
Maori
 
tattoos of
 
Marajó
 
Maranda, Pierre
 
Margueritte, Victor
 
Maritain, Jacques
 
Marseilles
 
Martinique
 
Marx, Karl
 
Marxism
 
masks
sxwaixwe
 
Massey Lectures
 
Masson, André
 
matrilineal societies
 
Matta, Roberto
 
Maugüé, Jean
 
Mauss, Marcel
 
CLS’s portrayal of
 
fieldwork seminars of
 
material culture emphasized by
 
reciprocity thesis of
 
“total social fact” idea of
 
in World War II,
 
Maybury-Lewis, David
 
Mead, Margaret
 
Meillassoux, Claude
 
Méliès, Georges
 
Mendoza
 
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
 
Merquior, José Guilherme
 
Mesquita, Júlio
 
Messiaen, Olivier
 
Metastasis
(Xenakis)
 
Métraux, Alfred
 
CLS’s relationship with
 
suicide of
 
Metz, Christian
 
Mexico
 
French exiles in
 
Gualupita terra-cotta figurines of
 
Meyerhof, Otto
 
Micheau, Jeanine
 
Milhaud, Darius
 
Milliet, Sérgio
 
mind, human
 
unconscious
 
missionaries
 
Jesuit
 
native’s murders of
 
Salesian
 
Mitterrand, François
 
modern art
 
CLS’s criticism of
 
cubism
 
impressionism
 
modernism
 
of avant-garde fiction
 
Brazilian
 
in history
 
late
 
in music
 
in visual arts
 
modesty
 
Monbeig, Pierre
 
Monnet, Georges
 
Monod, Jacques
 
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de
 
Mont-de-Marsan
 
Montesquieu
 
Morgan, Lewis Henry
 
morphology
 
Morphology of the Folktale
(Propp)
 
Motherwell, Robert
 
Mounier, Emmanuel
 
Mundé
 
Murphy, Robert
 
Musée de l’ethnographie
 
Exposition coloniale at
 
Exposition du Sahara at
 
Musée de l’Homme
 
CLS’s indigenous artifacts collection at
 
Indiens du Matto Grosso exhibition at
 
1937 Exposition internationale des arts et techniques dans la vie moderne at
 
Musée national d’Histoire naturelle
 
music
 
avant-garde
 
of Bororo
 
folk
 
minimalist
 
modernism in
 
of Nambikwara
 
orchestral, as metaphor
 
of Tupi-Kawahib
 
mythemes
 
Mythologiques
quartet (Lévi-Strauss)
 
myths
 
as authorless
 
bird-nester
 
Bororo
 
CLS’s mathematical formula (“genetic law”) of
 
clusters of
 
convergence of
 
culture variations of
 
fairy tales and
 
inversion in
 
jaguar’s wife as element in
 
language and
 
in modern films
 
modern novel and
 
Oedipus
 
oppositions in
 
psychoanalysis and
 
scatological material in
 
walking difficulty as element of
 
 
Nambikwara
 
amorous play of
 
CLS rescued by
 
CLS’s thesis on

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