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Article: Claude Levi-Strauss and the making of structural anthropology.(Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- December 1, 2000
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HENAFF, MARCEL. Claude Levi-Strauss and the making of structural anthropology; translated by Mary Baker, x, 292 pp., bibliogr. Minneapolis, London: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1998, [pound]14.00 (paper)
Marcel Henaff is an anthropologist and philosopher. It is from these two perspectives that he attempts to formulate the 'logic' that underlies the work of Levi-Strauss as a whole. Yet, as Henaff points out, Levi-Strauss has always refused to qualify structuralism as a 'philosophy'. In fact, in The naked man, he states, 'I have no philosophy of my own worth bothering about ...'. On the other hand, Levi Strauss did claim to be, along with Benveniste and Dumezil in ...