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Marked by the experience of exile, this volume reflects a moment that is both biographical and historical during which Claude Lévi-Strauss, like many European Jewish artists and scholars, found refuge in New York. Written between 1941 and 1947, while he had not yet abandoned his political reflections, the seventeen chapters of this book present a prehistory of structural anthropology. These American years are also marked by the awareness of irreparable historical catastrophes: the extermination of Native Americans and the genocide of Jews in Europe. From the 1950s onward, Lévi-Strauss's anthropology seems profoundly shaped by the memory and possibility of the Holocaust, which is never named. The idea of "zero signifier" is at the very foundation of structuralism. Speaking of "Zero Structural Anthropology" thus returns to the source of a thought that has transformed our understanding of humanity. However, this prehistory of "First" and "Second Structural Anthropologies" also emphasizes the sense of tabula rasa that animated its author in the aftermath of the war and the shared project of a civilizational restart on new foundations.
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Structural Anthropology Zero, Claude Lévi-Strauss
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
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- Titel
- Structural Anthropology Zero
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Verlag
- Polity Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2021
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 300
- ISBN10
- 1509544984
- ISBN13
- 9781509544981
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Anthropologie
- Beschreibung
- Marked by the experience of exile, this volume reflects a moment that is both biographical and historical during which Claude Lévi-Strauss, like many European Jewish artists and scholars, found refuge in New York. Written between 1941 and 1947, while he had not yet abandoned his political reflections, the seventeen chapters of this book present a prehistory of structural anthropology. These American years are also marked by the awareness of irreparable historical catastrophes: the extermination of Native Americans and the genocide of Jews in Europe. From the 1950s onward, Lévi-Strauss's anthropology seems profoundly shaped by the memory and possibility of the Holocaust, which is never named. The idea of "zero signifier" is at the very foundation of structuralism. Speaking of "Zero Structural Anthropology" thus returns to the source of a thought that has transformed our understanding of humanity. However, this prehistory of "First" and "Second Structural Anthropologies" also emphasizes the sense of tabula rasa that animated its author in the aftermath of the war and the shared project of a civilizational restart on new foundations.