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Re: Is Levi-Strauss essential? was It still works? Avoid it anyway.
Steve Patterson (no_spam_spatterson@wwdc.com)
15 Jan 1997 16:56:57 GMT
In article <rdiller-1401971420320001@ntcs-ip40.uchicago.edu>, rdiller@midway.uchicago.edu (rmd) says:
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>In article <5bgi96$40b@darla.visi.com>, dsgood@visi.com (Dan Goodman) wrote:
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>> In article <5betmn$d35@dismay.ucs.indiana.edu>,
>> Chad Ryan Thomas <crthomas@indiana.edu> wrote:
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>> >Seriously, though, if you don't buy Levi-Strauss, you can't buy the majority
>> >of modern thought on the structure and function of human culture.
[snip]
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>> Question for sci.anthropology -- is this an accurate assessment of
>> Levi-Strauss's place in anthropology (and related disciplines)?
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>Can't speak for anthropology, but can for a related discipline:
>comparative religion. In these parts L-S is rather out-of-date,
[snip]
Gee, I had no idea that blue jeans were so important...
(Well, come to think of it, how many researchers of *all* fields find a
pair of Levis an essential tool? Archeology as we know it would grind
to a halt. Particle physics, too...)
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