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TRISTES TROPIQUES (Claude Levi-Strauss)
6.15pm (for a 6.30pm start), Thursday 22 April 2010
We'll start just after 6.30pm, and continue till 8pm-8.30pm. Format is usually:
short speech, then two or three rounds of discussion, with breaks in-between.
Often we'll go to dinner afterwards.
No cost. No reading required beforehand. All welcome!
Location: members bar, floor 1 (keep winding up to the top of the stairs), The
Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills, Sydney (100 metres from a
Central railway station exit). Usually we meet outside, through the double
doors, on the terrace.
Regards,
Adrian
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* "Tristes Tropiques is a memoir, first published in France in 1955, by the
anthropologist and structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss. It documents his travels
and anthropological work, focusing principally on Brazil, though it refers to
many other places, such as the Caribbean and India. Although ostensibly a
travelogue, the work is infused with philosophical reflections and ideas
linking many academic disciplines, such as sociology, geology, music, history
and literature." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristes_Tropiques)
* "He argued that the 'savage mind' had the same structures as the 'civilized'
mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere. These observations
culminated in his famous book Tristes Tropiques, which positioned him as one of
the central figures in the structuralist school of thought, where his ideas
reached into fields including the humanities and philosophy. Structuralism has
been defined as 'the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms
of human activity.'" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss)
* Structuralism: "in cultural anthropology, the school of thought developed by
the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, in which cultures, viewed as
systems, are analyzed in terms of the structural relations among their
elements. According to Lévi-Strauss’s theories, universal patterns in cultural
systems are products of the invariant structure of the human mind. Structure,
for Lévi-Strauss, referred exclusively to mental structure, although he found
evidence of such structure in his far-ranging analyses of kinship, patterns in
mythology, art, religion, ritual, and culinary traditions."
(http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/569633/structuralism)
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