http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/nov/03/claude-levi-strauss-obituary
Which includes the following text: "There is also another, even more fundamental, way in which his thought seeks to rejoin that of the mythology of the Amerindians as he understands it to be. Myths have no authors. Their creation occurs imperceptibly in the process of transmission or transformation over hundreds of years and across hundreds of miles. The individual subject, the self-obsessed innovator or artist so dear to much western philosophy, had, therefore, no place for LC)vi-Strauss, and indeed repelled him. He saw the glorification of individual creativity as an illusion. As he wrote in Tristes Tropiques: "the I is hateful". This perspective is particularly evident in his study of Amerindian art. This art did not involve the great individualistic self-displays of western art that he abhorred. The Amerindian artist, by contrast, tried to reproduce what others had done and, if he was innovating, he was unaware of the fact. Throughout LC)vi-Strauss's work there is a clear aesthetic preference for a creativity that is distributed throughout a population and that does not wear its emotions on its sleeve." (Maurice Bloch) Maurice Bloch is the anthropologist whose attack on the current norms of academic cultural anthropology leads off Chapter 4 in Denis Dutton's "The Art Instinct" entitled "But They Don't Have Our Concept of Art" (although the idea presented in the above text would seem to contradict some of the characteristics of art that Dutton proposed as cross-cultural in Chapter 3. ____________________________________________________________ Weight Loss Program Best Weight Loss Program - Click Here! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/c?cp=KoJ92HyLkB7Gsw-KgePLogAAJz6c l_zTaptgNR5c8Mer1v9kAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEUgAAAAA=
