When I was doing archaeology I always found C Levi-S's technique of conceptual oppositions very useful for the interpretation of building distributions, iconography and spatiality.
On Nov 10, 5:29 pm, Timothy Monicken <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I remember his work well... he had great influence on my thinking as it > concerned the field research in Cultural Anthropology. Though I felt his > "binary code" primarily applied to cultural myth & perspective to be > somewhat limiting, there was that element of the paradoxical tensions > created when the chief elements or proponents found in the classical sets of > cultural heritage came into play... " the word behind words" as Joseph > Campbell may have put it. In some ways it all seems to play back into > Wittgenstein. Whatever the case, we all stand on the shoulders of pioneers, > TO BE SURE. I appreciate it when others in the group are respectful of > that. Chreodman > > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:51 PM, nominal9 <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5A24HT20091103 > > French anthropologist Levi-Strauss dies at 100 > > Tue Nov 3, 2009 1:22pm EST > > Email | Print | Share| Reprints | Single Page[-] Text [+] By Estelle > > Shirbon > > PARIS (Reuters) - French intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss, the > > founder > > of structural anthropology, has died at the age of 100, his > > publishing > > house Plon said on Tuesday. > > > Levi-Strauss, who was known to a wider public thanks to his 1955 > > memoir and masterpiece, "Tristes Tropiques," died on Saturday. He > > would have turned 101 on November 28. > > > "He was France's greatest scientist," said writer Jean d'Ormesson, > > fellow member of the Academie Francaise which brings together the > > elite of the country's intellectual establishment. > > > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
