"The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its "ontological turn," offers a vision of anthropology as "the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought." After showing that Amaz…
Ch. 1. The structure of myth -- ch. 2. Barthes : myth as meaningful form -- ch. 3. Levi-Strauss and the problems of Oedipus -- ch. 4. Vernant : a logic of the equivocal -- ch. 5. Detienne : the empirical categories of myth -- ch. 6. Vidal-Naquet : a factotum of history -- ch. 7.…
"Claude Levi-Strauss is probably the most complex anthropological theorist of all time. His work continues to influence present-day thinkers in his field, but he is perhaps even more influential beyond it. As one of the key figures in the development of what is known today as 'F…
"Claude Levi-Strauss is probably the most complex anthropological theorist of all time. His work continues to influence present-day thinkers in his field, but he is perhaps even more influential beyond it. As one of the key figures in the development of what is known today as 'F…
"Claude Levi-Strauss is probably the most complex anthropological theorist of all time. His work continues to influence present-day thinkers in his field, but he is perhaps even more influential beyond it. As one of the key figures in the development of what is known today as 'F…