Lévi-Strauss et l’Asie. L’anthropologie structurale « out of America »

This article analyzes the role of Asia in Lévi-Strauss’s works, and draw conclusions for a structural anthropology of this continent. If Lévi-Strauss seems to devalorize Asia in the literary meditation of Tristes tropiques, he revalorizes it in his scientific writings, seeing it as a continuation of...

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Main Author: Frédéric Keck
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Language:fra
Published: Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la diffusion de l'Information Géographique 2008-11-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/9593
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title Lévi-Strauss et l’Asie. L’anthropologie structurale « out of America »
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