Sumários
Rhetoric and ideology in C. Lévi-Strauss work
18 Abril 2024, 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 - continued
17 Abril 2024, 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)
Ausência justificada
11 Abril 2024, 16:00 • Manuel João Ramos
Docente convocado para conferência de pais no tribunal de menores e família de Lisboa, das 15h às 18h.
C. Lévi-Strauss: biography and epistemology
10 Abril 2024, 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: totems
21 Março 2024, 16:00 • Manuel João Ramos
Illustration of the consubstantiation problem: reading of the Bible and other documentation. The notion of dual opposition, the Lévi-Straussean misreadings of phonology, and its implications on the analysis of symbolic thought. How A.R. Radcliffe-Brown's "union of contraries" ( The comparative method in Social Anthropology) is reinterpreted as "correlation of opposites" in C. Lévi-Strauss. Le totémisme aujourd'hui. The empiricist syndrome illustrated in L'evi-Strauss' "totemic illusion": clanic reciprocity as a function of dual symbolic thought in Le totémisme aujourd'hui and La pensée sauvage. Screening of interview to C. Lévi-Strauss (1972)