The predicament of heroic anthropology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2265002
AutoresA Doja (0000-0001-5378-8362, HEC Paris in Qatar, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen22
Número3
Páginas18-22
Fecha de publicación2006-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropology Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0268-540X • E-ISSN: 1467-8322
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-8322.2006.00439.x
OpenAlexW2156266255
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas10

Paradoxically at first sight, Derrida's grammatological project joined the same idea of thought-decentring that was already morally and epistemologically central to Lévi-Strauss. But recognizing that Lévi-Strauss's anthropology anticipated thinking on deconstruction and on decentration would contribute to grant it with the benefit of a gesture that Derrida would like to be restricted to his own approach. In this paper I argue that if we are to understand the modern condition at all we need to return to Lévi-Strauss's critique of history and colonialism, for his writings helped to make possible such modernist ideas of the predicament of culture and identity

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