Re: Is Levi-Strauss essential? was It still works? Avoid it anyway.

Rijk van Geijtenbeek (geijt@worldonline.nl)
16 Jan 1997 23:33:03 GMT

Rick Cook <rcook@BIX.com> wrote in article
<5blrpf$t8a@news2.delphi.com>...

> My impression is that Levi-Strauss was important for his pioneering
work
> rather than because the theories he put forth are still accepted in
toto.
>
> Kind of like Marx for most economists.

I don't know much about Levi Strauss, but I'm certain that most
economists don't see Marx as a pioneer in their field anymore. Those who
did nowadays like to forget that thought.