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Levi-Strauss: A Critical Study of his Thought

Levi-Strauss: A Critical Study of his Thought 392 Book Reviews MAURICE GODELIER, translated by Norah Scott London, Verso, 2017 Numerous stellar thinkers have left indelible marks on anthropology. There are few, however, whose contributions over the past century have had revolutionary, albeit controversial, impacts upon the discipline’s theoretical foundations comparable with those of Claude Lévi-Strauss. It is ironic, however—to the relief of many notwithstand- ing the grief of a few—that from the 1980s onwards the larger share of Lévi-Strauss’s structuralist brilliance came to be occluded and his overall legacy largely forgotten. Yet paradoxically—to the grief of many notwithstanding the relief of a few—pivotal luminaries of the post-structuralist ‘New Kinship’ (e.g., Schneider, Carsten, McKin- non, Strathern, Franklin) and the ‘Ontological Turn’ initiatives of recent years (Wagner, Strathern, Viveiros de Castro, Descola, Sahlins) can well be understood as ‘intensifying certain trains of thought’ traceable to Lévi-Strauss (see e.g., Holbraad & Pedersen 2017; Franklin & McKinnon 2001). Even so, for many devotees, it can be argued that there remains much misunderstanding regarding the substance and merit of Lévi-Strauss’s thought due to a persisting reluctance to probe beyond previous generations’ doctrinaire and superficial decrees. Anthropology is thus greatly indebted to Maurice Godelier who, with remarkable erudition, meticulous scholarship and clarity, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

Levi-Strauss: A Critical Study of his Thought

Mosko, Mark S.
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology , Volume 21 (4): 4 – Aug 7, 2020
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Levi-Strauss: A Critical Study of his Thought

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392 Book Reviews MAURICE GODELIER, translated by Norah Scott London, Verso, 2017 Numerous stellar thinkers have left indelible marks on anthropology. There are few, however, whose contributions over the past century have had revolutionary, albeit controversial, impacts upon the discipline’s theoretical foundations comparable with those of Claude Lévi-Strauss. It is ironic, however—to the relief of many notwithstand- ing the grief of a few—that from the 1980s onwards...
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1740-9314
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10.1080/14442213.2020.1781337
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392 Book Reviews MAURICE GODELIER, translated by Norah Scott London, Verso, 2017 Numerous stellar thinkers have left indelible marks on anthropology. There are few, however, whose contributions over the past century have had revolutionary, albeit controversial, impacts upon the discipline’s theoretical foundations comparable with those of Claude Lévi-Strauss. It is ironic, however—to the relief of many notwithstand- ing the grief of a few—that from the 1980s onwards the larger share of Lévi-Strauss’s structuralist brilliance came to be occluded and his overall legacy largely forgotten. Yet paradoxically—to the grief of many notwithstanding the relief of a few—pivotal luminaries of the post-structuralist ‘New Kinship’ (e.g., Schneider, Carsten, McKin- non, Strathern, Franklin) and the ‘Ontological Turn’ initiatives of recent years (Wagner, Strathern, Viveiros de Castro, Descola, Sahlins) can well be understood as ‘intensifying certain trains of thought’ traceable to Lévi-Strauss (see e.g., Holbraad & Pedersen 2017; Franklin & McKinnon 2001). Even so, for many devotees, it can be argued that there remains much misunderstanding regarding the substance and merit of Lévi-Strauss’s thought due to a persisting reluctance to probe beyond previous generations’ doctrinaire and superficial decrees. Anthropology is thus greatly indebted to Maurice Godelier who, with remarkable erudition, meticulous scholarship and clarity,

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology – Taylor & Francis

Published: Aug 7, 2020

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