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Bezig met laden... Totemism (origineel 1962; editie 1969)door Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roger C. Poole
Informatie over het werkTotemism door Claude Lévi-Strauss (1962)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Il totemismo, ossia il particolare fenomeno per cui un uomo o un gruppo di uomini si legano con un rapporto di parentela e di mutua protezione a una specie animale - o a piante o a fenomeni naturali - è stato variamente considerato: gli sono stati di volta in volta riconosciuti e negati carattere religioso e carattere universale; a volte è stato considerato tipico di una fase del progresso culturale; altre volte se ne è constatata l'assenza nei popoli più primitivi. L'analisi critica cui Claude Levi-Strauss lo sottopone in questo libro prospetta il fenomeno in una luce tutta nuova: ‟Il totemismo partecipa della conoscenza; le esigenze alle quali risponde, il modo stesso in cui cerca di soddisfarle, sono in primo luogo d'ordine intellettuale. In questo senso non ha nulla d'arcaico e di lontano.” geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Levi-Strauss continues his assault on the myth of the primitice as savage by turning to the phenomena of totemism an totoemix classification ... to show, contrary to this myth, that primitive thought rests upon a rich and complex conceptual structure." - Commentary Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Levi-Strauss deftly runs through the various theories that have been proposed over the years, and then neatly ties up all the loose ends in a very satisfactory conclusion. It is a paradoxical magic trick, by showing the logic behind the mystery, the concept of Totemism itself disappears.
Though his method, Structuralism, is not fully explained here, it is not required really to see the general idea of how he got to where he did. For anyone more interested in this method of analysis (which is in itself as interesting as the topic of Totemism), it would be worth seeking out a separate work such as Edmund Leach's Modern Masters volume on Levi-Strauss, which makes the neatness of this approach more fully appreciable. Perhaps read that first. ( )