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Come on people where are the comments on Structural Anthropology!


12 posted on 11/03/2009 9:51:54 AM PST by Borges
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Come on people where are the comments on Structural Anthropology!

You should see what anthropologists of the late 1800s had to say about the different cultures, tribes, peoples they encountered and studied. Very politically incorrect  Such as people in the near tropics are "ruled by their passions" IE incapable of logical thought

16 posted on 11/03/2009 10:00:23 AM PST by dennisw (Obama -- our very own loopy, leftist god-thing.)
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Actually Levi-Strauss’ writings about the cultural role of the trickster is very relevant to the current political environment.


26 posted on 11/03/2009 10:20:49 AM PST by rhetorica
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I’m hot and cold on that issue.


34 posted on 11/03/2009 10:59:01 AM PST by kempster
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Come on people where are the comments on Structural Anthropology!

Exactly. Show some respect, people. (Thinking furiously) I...uh...always read structural anthropology with jeans on...

Seriously, holy crap - I didn't know the guy was still around. Made the big century mark, he did. Good on him. I have to wonder - maybe I'll take this opportunity to read it - how he felt about the neo-Marxists who have so inundated the field.

35 posted on 11/03/2009 11:02:22 AM PST by Billthedrill
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<Come on people where are the comments on Structural Anthropology!

LOL! Really, the guy was a major deal in anthro. I’m sorry to read of his passing; tho I admit to thinking he must have died years ago.

Everyone should take a class or two in cultural anthropology. Maybe some FReepers wouldn’t issue some of the idiotic statements that they do if they understood people and culture better.


42 posted on 11/03/2009 12:11:33 PM PST by radiohead (Buy ammo, get your kids out of government schools, pray for the Republic.)
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I used one of his ideas in a paper on lithic technology. My archaeology professor thought it was interesting as Structural Anth is strongly tied to the Cultural Anth part of the subject.

I must admit I didn’t think he was still alive. As others have said, I might have to dust off one of his books and re-read it.


48 posted on 11/04/2009 6:49:51 AM PST by Betis70 (Never Forget)
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