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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Main Author: Emmanuel Désveaux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2017-06-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/57293
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description 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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spelling doaj.art-86b89ee3328447bc81c47ba58b0f40b82024-02-14T16:50:40ZengCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos1626-02522017-06-0110.4000/nuevomundo.57293Lévi-Strauss et les deux Amériques II- L’Amérique du Nord, ou l’adieu au primitivismeEmmanuel DésveauxAt 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 thenhttps://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/57293anthropologyUnited StatesLévi-StraussEthnographyAmerican IndiansXXth Century
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Lévi-Strauss et les deux Amériques II- L’Amérique du Nord, ou l’adieu au primitivisme
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
anthropology
United States
Lévi-Strauss
Ethnography
American Indians
XXth Century
title Lévi-Strauss et les deux Amériques II- L’Amérique du Nord, ou l’adieu au primitivisme
title_full Lévi-Strauss et les deux Amériques II- L’Amérique du Nord, ou l’adieu au primitivisme
title_fullStr Lévi-Strauss et les deux Amériques II- L’Amérique du Nord, ou l’adieu au primitivisme
title_full_unstemmed Lévi-Strauss et les deux Amériques II- L’Amérique du Nord, ou l’adieu au primitivisme
title_short Lévi-Strauss et les deux Amériques II- L’Amérique du Nord, ou l’adieu au primitivisme
title_sort levi strauss et les deux ameriques ii l amerique du nord ou l adieu au primitivisme
topic anthropology
United States
Lévi-Strauss
Ethnography
American Indians
XXth Century
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