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Lévi-Strauss's heroic anthropology facing contemporary problems of the modern world

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Claude Lévi-Strauss, the founder of the structural revolution in anthropology, passed in October 2009. In the decade after his death, we are presented with a significant number of successive publications that celebrate both his work and life and the ever-lasting public engagement of his heroic anthropology with problems of the modern world. This extended review article is focused to deal with these works in relation to contemporary issues, which is not already so well known for Lévi-Strauss and which can make a point to restore him to a central position of importance not merely in the history of anthropology but also in the public engagement of current anthropology.

Source: Reviews in Anthropology

DOI: 10.1080/00938157.2020.1794140

Author: Albert Doja

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Lille, Centre Lillois d'Etudes et de Recherches Sociologiques et Economiques

Language: English

Topic: Anthropological Studies and Insights

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: University of British Columbia

OpenAlex ID: W3083085382

FWCI: 4.299

Cites: 38

Cited by: 16

Related to: 10