The shoulders of our giants
Claude Lévi-Strauss and his legacy in current anthropology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3056476 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Doja (0000-0001-5378-8362, Centre Lillois d'Etudes et de Recherches Sociologiques et Economiques, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-107 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science Information (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0539018406061104 |
| OpenAlex | W2093248873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 24 |
EnglishIn the course of anti-structuralist criticism, the main thrust of Lévi-Strauss's epistemological approach seems to have been lost, to the collective detriment of social sciences and anthropology. By its monumental character, Lévi-Strauss's work evokes that of the founders of anthropology, whereas, by the way in which it puts in relation the cultural and the mental, it anticipates a theoretical anthropology to come, with the ambition of providing a rigorous method that comes close to scientific knowledge. The fundamental point remains the emancipation of the structural approach from the linguistic model and its orientation toward a new context of science and technology, as exemplified in mathematics, information science, cybernetics and game theory, which made it possible for structural anthropology to innovatively account for the social systems and praxis of competitive and strategic practices.FrenchAu cours du criticisme anti-structuraliste, l'objectif central de l'approche épistémologique de Lévi-Strauss semble avoir été perdue au détriment collectif de l'anthropologie et des sciences sociales. Par son caractère monumental, l'œuvre de Lévi-Strauss évoque celle des fondateurs de l'anthropologie, alors que par la façon dont elle met en rapport le culturel et le mental, elle anticipe sur une anthropologie théorique à venir, avec l'ambition de fournir une méthode rigoureuse d'investigation anthropologique proche du savoir scientifique. Le point fondamental reste l'émancipation de l'approche structurale hors du modèle linguistique, vers un nouveau contexte scientifique et technologique illustré en mathématiques, sciences de l'information, cybernétique et théorie des jeux, qui permet à l'anthropologie structurale de rendre compte de façon innovatrice des systèmes sociaux comme de la praxis des pratiques compétitives et stratégiques
Cultural anthropology · Emancipation · Philosophical anthropology · Social anthropology · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Social Representations and Identity
Structural models in anthropology
The New German-speaking School of Balkankompetenzen
International representations of Balkan wars
The Mytho-Logics of Othering and Containment
Claude Lévi‐Strauss (1908–2009)
Notes on Structuralism
Invitation au terrain
Lévi-Strauss's heroic anthropology facing contemporary problems of the modern world
The shoulders of our giants
The creation of the 9/11 myth and its ritualisation inside New York City
From the German-speaking point of view
The Kind of Writing
Claude Lévi-Strauss at His Centennial
From Neolithic Naturalness to Tristes Tropiques
The predicament of heroic anthropology
The Question of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Double Twist
Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss
O cru e o cozido
“Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes”
Levi-Strauss’s Theory on Kinship and Marriage
Rise of Anthropological Theory
Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Elementary Structures of Kinship
The Gift
The Rules of Sociological Method
Structural Anthropology
In Search of the Primitive
Works and lives
The Advent of Heroic Anthropology in the History of Ideas
The Postmodern Condition
The shoulders of our giants
L'Analyse Structurale en Linguistique et en Anthropologie
La geste d'Asdiwal
Telstar et les Aborigènes ou « La Pensée sauvage
The predicament of heroic anthropology
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |