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Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1966
A foundational work of structural anthropology examining the intellectual sophistication of non-Western thought systems, challenging Western assumptions about 'primitive' cognition through analysis of classification systems, totemism, and abstract reasoning.
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What this book knows
Savage minds and scientific minds share the same hunger for order; only their materials and methods differ.
mind-and-cognition
The whole aim of theoretical science is to carry to the highest possible degree the perceptual reduction of chaos that began with the origin of life.
SM-RC-011Mythical thought is imprisoned in events and experiences which it never tires of ordering and re-ordering in its search to find them a meaning.
SM-RC-023They are condensed expressions of necessary relations which impose constraints at each stage of their employment; their necessity is not simple but it is there.
SM-RC-035belonging
Totemism corresponds to modalities arbitrarily isolated from a formal system whose function is to guarantee convertibility of ideas between different levels of social reality.
SM-RC-070self-and-identity
Dogs are part of human society, though with so low a place that we allot them a special naming series distinct from human proper names.
SM-RC-183The proper names of the Sauk are said always to be related to the clan animal, suggesting its habits, attributes, or characteristic qualities.
SM-RC-153Illuminates
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