Sumários
Rhetoric and ideology in C. Lévi-Strauss work
2 Abril 2025, 16:00 • Manuel João Ramos
The utopian model behind the structural method proposal: analysis of Anthropologie strcturale II (the equalitarian future and the anthropologist's role; the paradigm of the "good savage") and of Structures Élementaires de la parenté (the primal dualist organisation of the Nambikwara). Reading of Thomas Pavel's Le mirage linguistique: deconstructution of C. L'evi-Strauss' "analysis of myths" and its non-compliance with Trubetzkoy's methodological constraints. Reading of Boris Wiseman's " Thought and culture: a reading of Claude Lévi-Strauss" Reading for next class: R. Needham, Right and Left: Essays in dual symbolic classification
Symbolism and classification, part 2
27 Março 2025, 16:00 • Manuel João Ramos
C. Lévi-Strauss' La pensée sauvage. A reading of Lévi-Strauss' ideas in historical and philosophical context. Totemism and caste (La pensée sauvage, chapter 4). A critical review of the rhetorical labyrinth proposed by the author. Deconstruction of classificatory methods in Anthropology. Reading for next class: Thomas Pavel, Le mirage linguistique
Symbolism and classification
26 Março 2025, 16:00 • Manuel João Ramos
Review of classificatory perspectives of symbolism, from Durkheim and Mauss to the post-structuralists. The evils of classification applied to symbolism. C. Lévi-Strauss' La pensée sauvage. A reading of Lévi-Strauss' ideas in historical and philosophical context. Reading for next class: C. Lévi-Strauss, La pensée sauvage (continued)
C. Lévi-Strauss: biography and epistemology
20 Março 2025, 16:00 • Manuel João Ramos
A synthesis of C. Lévi-Strauss´epistemological perspectives. Time and structure. Analysis of interviews to C. Lévi-Strauss Reading for next class: C. Lévi-Strauss, La pensée sauvage
Religion and Symbolism: classificatory models
19 Março 2025, 16:00 • Manuel João Ramos
Introduction to the life and work of C. Lévi-Strauss: Anthropologie structurale II: Le champ de l'anthropologie The influences of E. Durkheim, L. Levy-Bruhl. Anthropology and ideology: the role of C. Lévi-Strauss at the UNESCO. Reading for next class: A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, The comparative method in Social Anthropology C. Lévi-Strauss. Le totémisme aujourd'hui .