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 Consulta 24 de novembre de 1999

Lévi-Strauss
Exposició bibliogràfica 
desembre 1999 

Record: 1

Title: Levi-Strauss in Brazil: The Making of an Ethnologist [Levi-Strauss no Brasil: a formacao do etnologo]
Source: Mana, POR; 1998, 4, 1, Apr, 79-107.
Year Published: 1998
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0104-9313
CODEN: MANAFY
Author(s): Peixoto, Fernanda
Affiliation: Antroplogia Social U Sao Paulo [e-mail:
fpeixoto@uol.com.br]
Title Language: Portuguese
Country: Brazil
Abstract: Reviews Claude Levi-Strauss's publications, classes, & research during his 
1935-1938 professorship at the U of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to illustrate this period's impact on the French sociologist's ethnological career. Levi-Strauss's later recollections of the time
are also used to highlight Brazil's prominence in his anthropology as both subject & intellectual inspiration. His term at the university is also examined in historical context, underlining his development of Americanism, while his country & the rest of the West focused on African studies. His persistence in Sao Paulo in constructing a Durkheimian model of ethnology met with resistance from his French contemporaries but now serves as the foundation for today's Brazilian & Latin American anthropology. 59 References. Adapted from the source document
Subject(s): Levi-Strauss, Claude; Brazil; Ethnology; Social Anthropology; Intellectual History
Subject Code: D458400; D095400; D273000; D780000; D400800; D738300;
D235200; D891300
Classification: sociology: history and theory; history & present state of sociology ; culture and social structure; social anthropology
Classific. Code: 0206; 0514
Accession #: 9908177 [SA 1998 v. 047 (03)]
Entry Month: 9906
Pub Date: 980401
Database: sociofile
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Record: 2

Title: From Granet to Levi-Strauss. 1. One-Way Exchange [De Granet a Levi-Strauss. 1. L'Echange a sens unique]
Source: Social Anthropology, FRE; 1998, 6, 1, Feb, 1-60.
Year Published: 1998
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0964-0282
CODEN: SNTHE3
Author(s): Heran, Francois
Affiliation: Instit national statistique & etudes economiques, 18 Blvd
Pinard F-75014 Paris France
Title Language: French
Country: United States
Abstract: Claude Levi-Strauss's typologies of alliance strategies owe a great deal to the ideas of Marcel Granet (1939). An examination of Granet's abstruse text shows the use of metaphors of game theory & risk strategies, & his  acknowledgement of the preeminence of
unilateral forms of alliance. Levi-Strauss would later do the same by scrutinizing some of these ideas & hinting that Granet plagiarized ideas from a member of the Leiden school, Franciscus van Wouden. Ideas that were transferred from Granet to Levi-Strauss provide insight into
the genesis of French structural anthropology. 1 Table, 24 Figures. Adapted from the source document
Subject(s): Structuralism; Levi-Strauss, Claude; Social Anthropology; Intellectual History; Anthropology
Subject Code: D837450; D458400; D780000; D400800; D036300
Classification: culture and social structure; culture (kinship, forms of social organization, social cohesion & integration, & social representations)
Classific. Code: 0513
Key Phrases: Van Wouden, Franciscus; Granet, Marcel
Accession #: 9903998 [SA 1998 v. 047 (02)]
Entry Month: 9904
Pub Date: 980201
Database: sociofile
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Record: 3

Title: Violence and Representation in the Mythic Text [Violence et representation dans le texte mythique]
Source: La Revue du MAUSS, FRE; 1997, 10, 110-128.
Year Published: 1997
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0990-5642
CODEN: RMAUEV
Author(s): Girard, Rene
Other Contributors: Formentelli, Bee
Title Language: French
Country: France
Abstract: Claude Levi-Strauss's (1991) observations on myths are accurate for his examples, but his myth topology is not satisfactory. Many myths display so much ambiguity that it is difficult to separate the message from the structure that Levi-Strauss theorizes is critical
to the genre. One such set of myths involves the fascination with communal murder & its motivations. In persecution myths, a polarity occurs between violent acts, eg, lynchings, & views denouncing such acts, with actors unable or unwilling to listen to another view. Myths
range from blaming the victim for a community's troubles to the depiction of mass violent hysteria as illustrated by Jewish persecution in the Middle Ages. A comprehensive myth theory cannot be accomplished in structural ethnology. L. Brentlinger
Subject(s): Violence; Myths; Levi-Strauss, Claude; Theoretical Problems; Oppression; Sociological Theory
Subject Code: D905400; D546900; D458400; D864425; D588900; D809400;
D478500; D037800; D520500
Classification: culture and social structure; social anthropology
Classific. Code: 0514
Notes: Transated by Bee Formentelli.
Accession #: 9900808 [SA 1997 v. 047 (01)]
Entry Month: 9902
Pub Date: 97
Database: sociofile
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Record: 4

Title: Introduction
Source: Modern & Contemporary France, ENG; 1997, 5, 4, Nov, 405-408.
Year Published: 1997
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0963-9489
CODEN: MCFRFP
Author(s): Johnson, Christopher
Affiliation: U Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG England
Title Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
Abstract: Introduces work (see abstracts of related articles) that examines the intellectual, theoretical, & institutional issues that affect the relationship between sociology & anthropology in the work of Emile Durkheim, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jean-Paul Sartre, & Pierre Bourdieu. It is asserted that, although the relationships between these two disciplines & among the work of these four thinkers are complex, several repeating & intersecting themes are present. M. Cella
Subject(s): Sociology; Anthropology; Interdisciplinary Approach; Durkheim, Emile; Levi-Strauss, Claude; Sartre, Jean-Paul; Bourdieu, Pierre
Subject Code: D810000; D036300; D403200; D235200; D458400; D739500;
D092400
Classification: sociology: history and theory; history & present state of sociology
Classific. Code: 0206
Accession #: 9813727 [SA 1997 v. 046 (06)]
Entry Month: 9812
Pub Date: 971101
Database: sociofile
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Record: 5

Title: Anthropology and Sociology: From Mauss to Levi-Strauss
Source: Modern & Contemporary France, ENG; 1997, 5, 4, Nov, 421-431.
Year Published: 1997
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0963-9489
CODEN: MCFRFP
Author(s): Johnson, Christopher
Affiliation: U Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG England
Title Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
Abstract: Claude Levi-Strauss's ambitious postwar reconstruction of ethnology as a social & structural anthropology not only transformed the internal configuration of the discipline, but also affected its traditionally close relationship with sociology since the pioneering work of the Durkheimian school. These tensions are visible in his Introduction a l'oeuvre de Marcel Mauss, ([Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss] 1950), which is less an introduction to the work of the celebrated father of French ethnology than a pretext for Levi-Strauss to lay the theoretical groundwork for his anthropology of religions. The structuralist program that emerges represents a powerful, if not entirely faithful, appropriation of Mauss, & places ethnology firmly at the center of the human sciences humaines. Ultimately, in fact, Levi-Strauss's ambivalent mediation of Mauss seems to relegate him, along with Emile Durkheim, to the prehistory of the line of socioanthropological thought culminating in structural anthropology.
Adapted from the source document
Subject(s): Levi-Strauss, Claude; Mauss, Marcel; Structuralism; Social Anthropology; Sociology; Interdisciplinary Approach
Subject Code: D458400; D503400; D837450; D780000; D810000; D403200;
D361800; D311400
Classification: culture and social structure; social anthropology ; sociology: history and theory; history & present state of sociology
Classific. Code: 0514; 0206
Accession #: 9814216 [SA 1997 v. 046 (06)]
Entry Month: 9812
Pub Date: 971101
Database: sociofile
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Record: 6

Title: Anthropology and the sciences humaines: The Voice of Levi-Strauss
Source: History of the Human Sciences, ENG; 1997, 10, 3, Aug, 122-133.
Year Published: 1997
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0952-6951
CODEN: HHSCEO
Author(s): Johnson, Christopher
Affiliation: Dept Modern Languages Keele U, Staffordshire ST5 5BG
England [e-mail: mla01@cc.keele.ac.uk]
Title Language: English
Country: United Kingdom
Abstract: Examines the voices of Claude Levi-Strauss between the routine activity of ethnographic data collection & fieldwork, & the radical immersion into the defamiliarizing environment of the alien culture, that constitute the human science of anthropology, the
passion of fieldwork, & its subsequent sublation in structural anthropology. It is argued that, in the autobiographical narrative of Tristes tropiques ([Sad Tropics] 1984) can be found the two such voices that can be read both as an account of ethnographic experience & as overcoming the essential irreducibility of that experience. The totemic self that emerges in Tristes tropiques, constructed on the premise of neolithic affinity, not only allows Levi-Strauss to explain the profound necessity of his vocation, but also forms the basis of his thought. 9 References
Subject(s): Levi-Strauss, Claude; Ethnography; Fieldwork; Structuralism; Humanism; Intellectual History; Anthropology
Subject Code: D458400; D272100; D300700; D837450; D375300; D400800;
D036300
Classification: culture and social structure; social anthropology ; sociology: history and theory; history & present state of sociology
Classific. Code: 0514; 0206
Accession #: 9806600 [SA 1997 v. 046 (03)]
Entry Month: 9806
Pub Date: 970801
Database: sociofile
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Record: 7

Title: The Man of L'Homme [L'Homme de L'Homme]
Source: L'Homme, FRE; 1997, 37, 1(143), July-Sept, 13-15.
Year Published: 1997
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0439-4216
CODEN: HRFAAJ
Author(s): Levi-Strauss, Claude
Title Language: French
Country: France
Abstract: The author explains that his relationship with Jean Pouillon began when Levi-Strauss wrote an impressive article for Temps modernes in 1956. Asked to comment on it, Pouillon explained what Levi-Strauss wanted to say better, according to Levi-Strauss, than he had said it himself. The growing friendship between the two men is recounted, & joint projects are discussed. The author argues that, although he conceived of the journal, L'Homme, it was the work of Pouillon that was significant. Other important triumphs of Pouillon's career are recalled, & his intellectual & moral qualities are declared to be without equal
Subject(s): Levi-Strauss, Claude; Intellectual History; Anthropology; Journals
Subject Code: D458400; D400800; D036300; D423600; D311400
Classification: culture and social structure; social anthropology ; sociology: history and theory; history & present state of sociology
Classific. Code: 0514; 0206
Key Phrases: Pouillon, Jean
Accession #: 9806607 [SA 1997 v. 046 (03)]
Entry Month: 9806
Pub Date: 970701
Database: sociofile
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Record: 8

Title: Meeting with Roland Barthes: Ideology as Myth [Gensyn med Roland Barthes: Ideologi som myte]
Source: Dansk Sociologi, DAN; 1997, 8, 2, June, 86-92.
Year Published: 1997
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0905-5908
CODEN: DSOCE3
Author(s): Broch, Tom
Title Language: Danish
Country: Denmark
Abstract: A review essay on the 1996 Gyldendal (Denmark) edition of the Danish translation of Roland Barthes's Mythologies (1957) as part of a new series on modern thinkers. The intellectual roots of Barthes's thought are discussed, including his debt to the structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss & Roman Jakobson. Of particular interest is Barthes's work on mass media & the symbology of mass communication, especially in the print media, as witnessed in his 1955 analysis of the cover of Paris-Match magazine. It is claimed that many of Barthes's insights are now dated, as are the ideas set forth in Mythologies; primarily, they suggest the intellectual faddishness of the 1960s & 1970s. 7 References. A. Cohen
Subject(s): Barthes, Roland; Myths; Intellectual History;
Structuralism; Levi-Strauss, Claude
Subject Code: D069900; D546900; D400800; D837450; D458400
Classification: sociology: history and theory; history & present state of sociology
Classific. Code: 0206
Accession #: 9908150 [SA 1997 v. 047 (03)]
Entry Month: 9906
Pub Date: 970601
Database: sociofile
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Record: 9

Title: The Emergence of Culture and Cultural Emergency: The Conflicting "Demands" of Cultural Studies
Source: MLN, Modern Language Notes, ENG; 1997, 112, 3, Apr, 454-469.
Year Published: 1997
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0026-7910
CODEN: MLNNA9
Author(s): Wei, Irene
Affiliation: Dept Comparative Literature U California, Irvine 92717
Title Language: English
Country: United States
Abstract: Argues that multiculturalism is an inadequate response to
the decentering of Eurocentric perspectives brought on by cultural
studies because it at once reduces particular cultures to the status
of an object for consumption & poses new complications engendered by
the readiness to attend to any discourse concerning non-Western
peoples. In place of multiculturalism, it is suggested that
specialists of non-Western cultures upset the growing ease with which
cultures are equated with immediate objects of reference & instead
foreground the repressed question of mediation in cultural studies.
This argument is traced in a discussion of Claude Levi-Strauss's
theory of cultural diversity in "Race and History" (1966).
Levi-Strauss is taken to argue that cultures are related by the
quantity of information that passes between them. While he put this
argument forward in the context of arguing for the preservation of
non-Western cultures in their authentic originality, it is contended
that Levi-Strauss's model of cultural mediation opens a useful way for
conceiving of the relation between the West & Third World cultures. D.
M. Smith (Copyright 1998, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
Subject(s): Sociology of Culture; Colonialism; Cultural Imperialism; Ethnocentrism; North and South; Levi-Strauss, Claude; Social Theories
Subject Code: D810750 ; D148500; D191200 ; D271800; D569100; D458400;
D802500
Classification: culture and social structure; culture (kinship, forms of social organization, social cohesion & integration, & social representations)
Classific. Code: 0513
Accession #: 9803662 [SA 1997 v. 046 (02)]
Entry Month: 9804
Pub Date: 970401
Database: sociofile
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Record: 10

Title: The Savage Thought and the Importance of Being Imperfect [El pensamiento salvaje y la importancia de ser imperfecto]
Source: Alteridades, SPA; 1997, 7, 13, 33-38.
Year Published: 1997
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0188-7017
CODEN: ALTEFL
Author(s): Olavarria, Maria Eugenia
Affiliation: Dept Antropologia U Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa,
09340 Mexico DF
Title Language: Spanish
Country: Mexico
Abstract: Discusses Claude Levi-Strauss's The Savage Thought (1964),
placing its structuralist methodology in the framework of anthropological paradigms. Levi-Strauss's forms of k owledge - scientific, Western, positivist, & domestic - & their limitations & misconceptions are used to argue that anthropology must consider the value of imperfection, incompletion, & interruption to succeed as a science. At issue are the establishment of difference & ruptures between magic, religion, & science in the positivist tradition. 16 References
Subject(s): Levi-Strauss, Claude; Anthropology; Structuralism; Theoretical Problems
Subject Code: D458400; D036300; D837450; D864425
Classification: culture and social structure; social anthropology ; methodology and research technology; methodology (conceptual & epistemological)
Classific. Code: 0514; 0103
Accession #: 9806615 [SA 1997 v. 046 (03)]
Entry Month: 9806
Pub Date: 970101
Database: sociofile
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Record: 11

Title: The Logical and Semiotic Status of the Canonic Formula of Myth
Source: Semiotica, ENG; 1997, 116, 2-4, 115-188.
Year Published: 1997
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0037-1998
CODEN: SMOTA3
Author(s): Marcus, Solomon
Affiliation: U Bucharest, R-70609 Romania [e-mail: solomon@roimar.imar.ro]
Title Language: English
Country: Germany, Republic of
Abstract: The history of the reception of Claude Levi-Strauss's (1955)
canonic formula of myth is discussed, & the semantics & mathematical
aspects of its elements are scrutinized in an attempt to clarify both
their obvious & hidden meanings. A paraphrasing of the formula is
offered that clarifies the practical application of the formal analogy
between the familiar base system or phore & the unknown target system
or theme. Subsequently, mathematical & rhetorical definitions of the
elements of the formula & their relations are discussed, referring to
previous critical interpretations & mythological examples. Combining
the syntagmatic interpretations of most critics & the paradigmatic
interpretation of Levi-Strauss himself, the necessity to distinguish
between unchanging domain validity of functions & the constancy of
terms is stressed, as is the need to be aware of the different ways in
which the mediation can be expressed. 11 Figures, 129 References. J.Paul
Subject(s): Myths; Levi-Strauss, Claude; Logic; Formalization (Theoretical); Semiotics
Subject Code: D546900; D458400; D472600; D310050 ; D753300
Classification: methodology and research technology; models: mathematical & other
Classific. Code: 0161
Accession #: 9813674 [SA 1997 v. 046 (06)]
Entry Month: 9812
Pub Date: 970101
Database: sociofile
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Record: 12

Title: The Noble Savage in Labor: Or, Claude Levi-Strauss Has a Baby
Source: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, ENG; 1996, 40, 1, autumn, 33-44.
Year Published: 1996
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0031-5982
CODEN: PBMEA8
Author(s): Wall, L. Lewis
Affiliation: School Medicine Louisiana State U, New Orleans 70112
Title Language: English
Country: United States
Abstract: Draws on personal experience as a gynecologist to argue that
the reproductive psychopathophysiology of Claude Levi-Strauss's
analysis (1949) of a magicoreligious text from the Cuna Indians of
Panama is a classic example of armchair anthropology. Levi-Strauss's
analysis of the text, which deals with shamanistic curing & childbirth
rituals, is described as revealing more about his prejudices than
about Cuna Indian birthing rituals. It is shown that Levi-Strauss has
embedded the Western myth of the Noble Savage in his discussion of
this text. While Levi-Strauss contends that invocations of a shaman
during difficult childbirths are meant to intensify the birthing
experience so that the patient can come to terms with the inner
turmoil that has halted the progress of labor, it is asserted that it
is at least as likely that the ritual is similar to Western relaxation
techniques taught to pregnant women. It is contended that this kind of
mythologizing prevents the development of obstetric services designed
to meet the needs of Third World cultures. 12 References. D. M. Smith
(Copyright 1997, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
Subject(s): Rituals; Levi-Strauss, Claude; Social Anthropology; Folk Culture; Traditional Medicine; Birth; Ethnocentrism; Shamanism
Subject Code: D720600; D458400; D780000; D306600; D873300; D082500;
D271800; D765000; D028200; D600900; D873600; D353700; D213600; D923800
Classification: culture and social structure; social anthropology ; the family and socialization; birth control (abortion, contraception, fertility, & childbearing)
Classific. Code: 0514; 1977
Key Phrases: shamanistic curing/childbirth ritual text, Cuna Indians, Panama, Claude Levi-Strauss's armchair anthropology analysis, Western myth, Third World obstetric services development implications; personal experience; gynecology
Accession #: 9715847 [SA 1996 v. 045 (06)]
Entry Month: 9712
Pub Date: 961001
Database: sociofile
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Record: 13

Title: Bushed
Source: The Sciences, ENG; 1996, 36, 4, July-Aug, 41-46.
Year Published: 1996
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0036-861X
CODEN: SCNOAF
Author(s): Berreby, David
Title Language: English
Country: United States
Abstract: A review essay on books by (1) Elmer S. Miller, Nurturing Doubt: From Mennonite Missionary to Anthropologist in the Argentine Chaco (U of Illinois Press, 1995); (2) Claude Levi-Strauss, Saudades do Brasil: A Photographic Memoir (U of Washington Press, 1995); (3) Clifford Geertz, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist (Harvard U Press, 1995); & (4) Nigel Barley, The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut (Henry Holt & Co, 1983).
The works are all fieldwork memoirs. Miller compares anthropological fieldwork to a religious pilgrimage. Levi-Strauss's work alsodescribes the process of discovery, but does so via photographs & reflections. Geertz  describes the experience of alienation from the local culture, & Barley offers a poignant & humorous spin on the anthropologist's situation. It is concluded that the changing racial & ethnic composition of  the US makes these descriptions of anthropological fieldwork valuable, as all Americans will be soon confronted with the task of understanding the Other. M. Nichols-Wagner (Copyright 1997, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
Subject(s): Fieldwork; Ethnography; Levi-Strauss, Claude;Anthropology; Anthropologists
Subject Code: D300700; D272100; D458400; D036300; D036000
Classification: culture and social structure; social anthropology
Classific. Code: 0514
Key Phrases: anthropological fieldwork memoirs; 4-book review essay
Availability: Document delivery from University Microfilms
International (UMI).
Accession #: 9709553 [SA 1996 v. 045 (04)]
Entry Month: 9708
Pub Date: 960701
Database: sociofile
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Record: 14

Title: "A Friendly and Nostalgic Salute..." ["Un Salut amical et nostalgique..."]
Source: Critique (FR), FRE; 1995, 51, 581, Oct, 751-757.
Year Published: 1995
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0011-1600
CODEN: CRTQAE
Author(s): Desveaux, Emmanuel
Title Language: French
Country: France
Abstract: A review essay on a book by Claude Levi-Strauss, Saudades do Brasil (Greetings from Brazil) (Paris: Plon, 1994 [see listing in IRPS No. 85]). The public attraction to the exotic photographs in Levi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques (The Dreary Tropics, 1955) is
discussed, & it is held that Levi-Strauss had to work hard to draw the reader's attention to the text & away from the pictures. Saudades do Brasil is described as a Tristes Tropiques in negative, in which the photographs themselves are the primary source of information, & are
actually used as texts. The new book's place as a fitting end to the Levi-Straussian cycle is suggested. It is held that the Indians in the photographs are shown to have had histories, & attention is paid to archeological research in the Amazonian area in which they live. The
responsibility for the destruction of these people's way of life is addressed. Levi-Strauss' technique is said to embrace cliches, while at the same time defying the traditions of photography. His rejection of the cinema is also considered, & his preference for photography is linked to his ideas of myth. D. Weibel (Copyright 1996, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
Subject(s): Amazon; Photographs; American Indians; Levi-Strauss, Claude
Subject Code: D027300; D626100; D028200; D458400; D095400; D873600;
D389100
Classification: culture and social structure; social anthropology
Classific. Code: 0514
Key Phrases: Saudades do Brasil (Greetings from Brazil) by Claude Levi-Strauss; review essay
Accession #: 9605794 [SA 1995 v. 044 (03)]
Entry Month: 9606
Pub Date: 951001
Database: sociofile
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Record: 15

Title: The Gift of the Mother [Le Don de la mere]
Source: Anthropologie et Societes, FRE; 1995, 19, 1-2, 139-155.
Year Published: 1995
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0702-8997
CODEN: ANSOFQ
Author(s): Tahon, Marie-Blanche
Affiliation: Dept sociologie U Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
Title Language: French
Country: Canada
Abstract: Argues against the standard interpretation of Claude Levi-Strauss's notion of motherhood, which is that the mother has no place in public life or political citizenship. Levi-Strauss held that it is not the woman who must be kept separate from public life, but
rather, the mother, & the intimate relationship between mother & child. To understand the 
position of women in modern democracy, then, the woman must be conceptually distinguished from the mother. 34 References. Adapted from the source document. (Copyright 1997,
Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
Subject(s): Parenthood; Mothers; Levi-Strauss, Claude; Citizenship
Subject Code: D604500; D542400; D458400; D130500; D205200
Classification: feminist/gender studies; feminist studies
Classific. Code: 2959
Key Phrases: motherhood, public life/political citizenship role; Claude Levi-Strauss's notion
Accession #: 9702876 [SA 1995 v. 045 (01)]
Entry Month: 9702
Pub Date: 950101
Database: sociofile
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Record: 16

Title: Mana-Type Concepts: Their Position and Purpose [Koncepti tipa mana: njihovo mesto in cemu sluzijo]
Source: Anthropos, SLV; 1995, 27, 3-4, 14-34.
Year Published: 1995
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0587-5161
CODEN: ANPSCK
Author(s): Sterk, Karmen
Title Language: Slovene
Country: Slovenia
Abstract: Mana-type concepts are a key socioanthropological approach to cosmological analysis & to the broader system of mental hypotheses of so-called primitive peoples. Mana is viewed in accordance with religious & magic systems & in relation to gifts & similar concepts. A literature review examines anthropological explanations, which are largely unsuccessful in exhausting &/or synthesizing all the implications & ethnographic features of the mana-type concept. Attention is focused on Claude Levi-Strauss's The Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949) & other structuralist works. His introduction of theoretical linguistic methods & later psychoanalytical approach established a uniform position for mana within his overall system where it became a condition for the activity of symbolic thought, comparable to the position enjoyed by the floating marker in linguistics & the desire motive in psychoanalysis. 83 References. Adapted from the source document. (Copyright 1996, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
Subject(s): Mana; Cosmology; Levi-Strauss, Claude
Subject Code: D485700; D177900; D458400; D516789
Classification: culture and social structure; culture (kinship, forms of social organization, social cohesion & integration, & social representations)
Classific. Code: 0513
Key Phrases: cosmological analysis, socioanthropological approach, mana-type concepts
Availability: Document delivery from University Microfilms
International (UMI).
Accession #: 9608373 [SA 1995 v. 044 (04)]
Entry Month: 9608
Pub Date: 950101
Database: sociofile
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Record: 17

Title: Own Culture and Other Culture. The Paradox of a Science of the Alien [Eigenkultur und Fremdkultur. Das Paradox einer Wissenschaft vom Fremden]
Source: Studia Culturologica, GER; 1994, 3, spring-autumn, 7-26.
Year Published: 1994
Document Type: Abstract of Journal Article
ISSN: 0861-6329
CODEN: STCUFY
Author(s): Waldenfels, Bernhard
Affiliation: Dept Philosophy Ruhr-U, Bochum D-44801 Federal Republic Germany
Title Language: German
Country: Bulgaria
Abstract: Explores the concept of interculturality in Edmund Husserl & Claude Levi-
Strauss, concluding that ethnology - taken as a science of the Other - is inherently paradoxical because it destroys its object as it comes to comprehend & explain it. Husserl stresses the
experience of the Other as the accessibility of inaccessibility, but it is argued that even he yields to a European logocentrism that absorbs the own & the Other culture into a common order, guaranteeing an "orthology" of experience under invariant frame conditions.
Levi-Straus offers some relief with his description of the initial experience of ethnology as detachment rather than contrast & a distinction between autoethnology (ie, the Others according to us) & alloethnology (ie, the  Others according to the Others). Nevertheless, it is concluded that the alien is responded to before it can be spoken about, meaning that the experience of the Other is always in the past tense. Adapted from the source document. (Copyright 1997, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.)
Subject(s): Husserl, Edmund; Levi-Strauss, Claude; Ethnology; Phenomenology; Methodological Problems
Subject Code: D378900; D458400; D273000; D622950; D516750
Classification: culture and social structure; social anthropology ; culture and social structure; culture (kinship, forms of social organization, social cohesion & integration, & social representations)
Classific. Code: 0514; 0513
Key Phrases: interculturality concept, ethnology, Edmund
Husserl/Claude Levi-Strauss
Accession #: 9703613 [SA 1994 v. 045 (02)]
Entry Month: 9704
Pub Date: 940101
Database: sociofile
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Record: 18

Title: Scientific Mythologies: Levi-Strauss and Fin-de-Siecle Primitiveness
Association: American Sociological Association; ENG
Author(s): Kurasawa, Fuyuki
Affiliation: School Sociology/Politics/Anthropoogy La Trobe U,
Melbourne Victoria 3083 Australia [tel: 613-9479-2690; e-mail: F.Kurasawa@latrobe.edu.au]
Title Language: English
Abstract: Claude Levi-Strauss stands today as one of the most celebrated & reviled of a series of European titans who have laid claim to the totality of human knowledge & the whole of human
creation. His ambivalence toward European modernity generates a fascination among his more careful interpreters, for he is a virtuoso at blending Cartesian intellectualism with a latent romanticism, & logical abstraction &  modernist scientism with empathy toward primitiveness & yearning for the traditional. Neither the structuralist approach nor Levi-Strauss's empirical findings about indigenous mythologies are examined per se. Instead, the aim is to highlight some themes found at the interstices of his thought, theory of history, vision of sociology & anthropology, wish for areun ification of natural & human spheres of existence, & view of the modern & the primitive. It is argued that, perhaps better than any other major contemporary thinker, Levi-Strauss understands the pivotal role of primitiveness in the formation of European modernity's
self-identity & self-understanding.
Subject(s): Modernity; Levi-Strauss, Claude; Social Theories
Subject Code: D531900; D458400; D802500
Classification: sociology: history and theory; theories, ideas, & systems
Classific. Code: 0207
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Accession #: 98S37135 [SA v. 046]
Entry Month: 9801
Database: sociofile
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Record: 19

Title: CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS AND THE MAKING OF STRUCTURAL 
ANTHROPOLOGY
Edition: 1998
ISBN: 0-8166-2761-4
LCCN: 97-41271
Original Edition: 1991
Author(s): Henaff, Marcel
Affiliation: U California San Diego, La Jolla 92093
Other Contributors: Baker, Mary
Title Language: English
Book Imprint: x+292pp, CI, Minneapolis: U Minnesota Press
Abstract: This translation by Mary Baker of the French Claude Levi-Strauss (Paris: Editions Belfond, 1991), overviews the anthropological research of Levi-Strauss & his contributions in
debates surrounding linguistics, epistemology, ethics, & aesthetics. Levi-Strauss's work is taken to be an impeccable example of the highest standard of 20th-century anthropological research, & has remained relatively unscathed as an exemplar in this field. Difficulties with his work have arisen due to its transplantation to other domains, including linguistics, philosophy, history, psychoanalysis, literary criticism, & Marxism, where it has been forced to stand as a preeminent model of structuralism. Except on occasion, Levi-Strauss preferred to ignore these debates, thus allowing several inconsistencies & errors to emerge in structuralist
theory, among them a basic confusion between order & structure, & between the formal vs 
structural approach to research. According to Levi-Strauss, structuralist analysis was pertinent only to certain objects of knowledge having to do with basic structure of societies.
He defined structure as a model depicting groups of invariable relations between social terms. Access to the social structure of any given society is mediated by such models. Such analysis is
demonstrated in a critical review of his work on kinship, the social mind, symbols, myths, art, & the question of history. Objections to his work raised by other anthropologists are addressed. Throughout, it is stressed that Levi-Strauss's structuralism is one, rather than the
only, perspective appropriate to anthropological or sociological research. The moral implications of anthropological work are also briefly considered. A chronology of Levi-Strauss's life & work is
appended. An Introduction precedes 9 Chpts with Notes & a Conclusion.354 References. D. Ryfe
Subject(s): Levi-Strauss, Claude; Theoretical Problems; Sociolinguistics; Epistemology; Social Anthropology; Methodology (Data Analysis); Methodology (Philosophical); Structuralism
Subject Code: D458400; D864425; D808500; D266400; D780000; D516763 ;
D516789 ; D837450
Classification: culture and social structure; social anthropology
Classific. Code: 0514
Accession #: 9904046 [SA v. 047 (02)]
Entry Month: 9901
Database: sociofile

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