Anthropos: Anthropos, 66.1971

Anthropos, 66.1971

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Structure Type:: Journal

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714820

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714820

Persistent identifier:: BV043334262

Title:: Anthropos

Sub Title:: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

Place of Publication:: Fribourg

Publisher:: Ed. St. Paul

Year of Publication:: 1906

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Domain:: Social and cultural anthropology > General overview

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Structure Type:: Journal Volume

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711765

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-711765

Persistent identifier:: 1510229578912

Title:: Anthropos, 66.1971

Year of Publication:: 1971

Call Number:: LA 1118

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Issue

Title:: Bd. 66, 1971, Heft 1-2

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Article

Title:: Analecta et Additamenta

Other person:: Baer, Gerhard; Arewa, E. Ojo; Eglar, Zekiye; Magnarella, Paul J.

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Analecta et Additamenta 219 fteless. it is not at all clear that Lévi-Strauss always ^^^1“- surely or that they are really relevant to the argumt f items of disparate tratlon of his concept of the bricoleur, the fashioner of s ™ C ' ™ dgal q{ intellectual lumber and unlikely content and origins. But one may amass a rarely if ever, carefully wi thout constructing a stable scholarly edifice, and evi . Never do we find famines all of the sources on any topic that may eva i ua te his method a thorough compilation of all the relevant facts so • j phenomena must of analysis. Yet lasting advancement in our understanding of soc^pheno^ ^ bo grounded in such tedious labour. With Levï-Straus stacke d. diverting, but the player must remember that his dec including L each, so often It is perplexing that so many social an ropo while they continue relax their critical attention when dealing with L < - b r colleagues whose to Wa ge guerilla warfare with other far more responsi e.a ^ with some of Lévi- rrrethods and assumptions manifest only minor slips in co p Strauss’s outrageous misuses of data 3 . , „ 0 f jargon or vagary Leach, never known among his colleagues for a h.gh tolerance jar B m others, here oddly glosses over glaring faults: , • • f t Strauss’ prose persistently elusive , Readers who find the precise meaning of Levi-btrau p s hould remember this part of his literary backgroun { ) ■ be a ma tter of opinion (53). It is a grand conception; whether it is a useful one m y not necessarily be all The journey is well worth while though the traveller that the wiser when he comes to the end of it (8/). . , ok But you should not The Savage Mind taken as a whole is an entrancing Dook.. always believe what is said! (91) 5 . , .. corf 0 f “truth” is involved? Even . The train of thought is fascinating, but w class which can be readily dis- d w e g ran t that the names given to racehorses ion , ‘ type of social context Anguished, is this juxtaposition of the type °* & ds to be asked. Whether it can anything more than a debating trick? I he questio ider the evidence and think it e fairl Y answered I am not sure. Each reader gee tructures of Kinship] In my 1 °ut for himself (91) 6 . [And writing of The Element y the stu dy of fallacies Vlew the final end product is in large measure fallacious Can prove rewarding (111). , TJ , r seems disinclined to make These comments simply will not do. Indee , seems to spring not an y clearcut evaluation of much of Lévi-Strauss s wor r . clarity by Leach f *>m any discernible effort toward neutrality but rather from a lack . . c °ffea bis suspension of critical judgment by otherwise highly critical and perceptive those^ U< T S Was nicely pointed out by an anonymous reviewer (Anonym. 1968). - For LÉvi-s nterestecl * n the social phenomenon of the professional and public reactions to s 0nio \ 1RAUs . s > a recent paperback presents a diverse selection of critiques and reviews, total en thusiastic, a few highly negative. It is useful to have these in one volume. The to s U clf SUlt 18 contra dictory but revealing. Can Lévi-Strauss really be all these things Sortie ^ a .wide range of writers ? He has become a hobbyhorse for a mixed club of jockeys, emb'i ^ a( ; in § t° further their own reputations through the latest intellectual fad, some a te d ; r ' ed upon a genuine intellectual journey for understanding, and some attempting 0 4 us LP arade °f their own conceits; cf. Hayes [edit.] 1970. of such ^ n huence of the French symbolists seems only part of the answer. The use Howe \ va S aiaes and paradoxes has a long and diffuse tradition in French social thought. H ElM] Ver > these notions of paradox are themselves part of the dialectical side of Durk- Co nsc , an theory, e. g., Durkheim’s use of the term conscience with its double meaning of m°ra] 10USness (individual awareness and cognitive activity) and conscience (socialized, affect aWareness ) involving Durkheim’s central theories of the tension between structural cesses’ r° Clet Y and the integration of the individual into it via social psychological pro- a Us ' ^evi-Strauss seems to manifest three tendencies: a penchant for poetic ambiguity, ■aeons 0 . Paradox to ex phcate and extend his dialectical models, and sheer vagary and Str aus s S ?» nC y ° f th °ught. Dr. Murphey (1969) may well ask; “Connaissez-vous Lévi- e ij^aHast this with John Greenway’s caustic review (1967). exact! d is eva Iuation is no more helpful now than when Leach first presented it, in furthY ,ty e same set of sentences in an earlier review (Leach 1967). 1 hree years for Wfiat > h ° ught do not seem to have allowed Leach an opportunity to be any surer just ■ all means. No wonder he describes Lévi-Strauss as “baffling”.

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