Lévi-Strauss et les deux Amériques II- L’Amérique du Nord, ou l’adieu au primitivisme
At the beginning of the 1950s, following the publication of Les Structures élémentaires de la parenté, Lévi-Strauss tried to give a second impulse to his research. The ethnographical corpus dedicated to the North American Indians thus played a crucial role in this phase of his intellectual story, al...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2017-06-01
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Series: | Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/57293 |
Summary: | At the beginning of the 1950s, following the publication of Les Structures élémentaires de la parenté, Lévi-Strauss tried to give a second impulse to his research. The ethnographical corpus dedicated to the North American Indians thus played a crucial role in this phase of his intellectual story, allowing him to define the method of analysis of the myths that he will display in Les Mythologiques. A new degree of ethnographical complexity imposes itself upon him; the consequence will be the renunciation of the primitivist paradigm which haunted him until then |
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ISSN: | 1626-0252 |