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EL UNIVERSO DE LAS

REGLASLEVI-STRAUSS

Sandra Razo


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Claude Levi-Strauss

One of Frances foremost

thinkers of the 20th century. The

celebrated philosopher and

anthropologist is one of the key

figures of structuralism and is

along with Franz Boas and

James George Frazer oftenreferred to as the father of

modern anthropology as he

dramatically changed the

Western perception of culture


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Levi-Strauss was born in

Brussels, Belgium, in 1908. He

grew up in France and was

educated in Paris. Afterattending the Lycee Janson de

Sailly and the Lycee

Condorcet, he continued

education at the Sorbonne in

Paris where he studied

philosophy and law. However,

he soon gave up law and


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After graduating from philosophyin 1931, he taught at secondaryschool until 1935 when he took

part of a French cultural missionto Brazil. At the Sao PauloUniversity, he became a visitingprofessor of sociology, while his

wife Dina was a visiting professorof ethnology. Besides teachingsociology, Levi-Strauss alsomade several trips to the Amazonjungle where he lived and studiedthe native tribes.


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After the outbreak of the SecondWorld War, Levi-Strauss returnedto France and took up arms. AfterFrances capitulation in 1941, he

left the country. He went toMartinique from where heemigrated to New York City. There,he taught at the New School for

Social Research and at the EcoleLibre des Hautes Etudes which heco-founded with other Frenchemigrates in New York including

Henri Focillon, Jacques Maritain


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Levi-Strauss returned to Paris

in 1948 to receive doctorate

from the Sorbonne. One yearlater, he published his first

notable workThe Elementary

Structures of Kinship that soon

became one of the mostimportant works in

anthropology.


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Although Levi-Strauss was well established among

the academic circles by the mid-1950s, he rose to

international prominence after he published Tristes

Tropiques in 1961. This partly philosophical and

partly biographical account of his trips and life withthe South American Indian tribes, and his next

masterpieceLa Pensee Sauvage that was

published one year later laid the foundation for

modern anthropology as well as Western


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In the later half of the 1960s,

Levi-Strauss focused on a

four-volume study, the

Mythologiques which wasfinally published in 1971.

Levi-Strauss remained active

after his retirement and

continued to publish works on

a variety of topics nearly until

his death. He died in 2009,

only a few weeks before his


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La Vie familiale et sociale des Indiens Nambikwara (1948)

Les Structures lmentaires de la parent (1949)

Tristes Tropiques (1955) Anthropologie structurale (1958)

Le Totemisme aujourdhui (1962)

La Pensee sauvage (1962)

Mythologiques I-IV (1964-1971)

Anthropologie structurale deux ( Vol. II; 1973)

La Voie des masques (The Way of the Masks; 1972)

Myth and Meaning (1978) Paroles donns (, 1951-1982; 1984)

Le Regard loign (The View from Afar; 1983)

La Potire jalouse (The Jealous Potter; 1985)

Histoire de Lynx (The Story of Lynx; 1991)


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Prohibicin del incesto

Se halla en la naturaleza

Pasaje de lo

Biolgico Cultural

Consanguneo Alianza


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Prohibicin del incesto reglas de

exogamia

Asimila a un grupo de hermanos y hermanas

con un grupos de primos hermanos (ya sea

maternos o paternos) y a la otra mitad comoesposos potenciales


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grados de parientes reales

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entre s mediante ciertos trminos


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Naturaleza y Cultura

Ambas opera segn el ritmo de recibir y dar

Da y recibe lo que da

Impone la Alianza, no

la determina

Da ms y recibe ms

de lo que da

Recibe la Alianza y

define sus

modalidades


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Cultura

Papel primordial en la alianza

Asegura la existencia del grupo como grupo

A travs de las formas de intervencin


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Prohibici

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incesto


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Pone en juego la existencia fsica o espiritual

del grupo


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Controla la distribucin de:

Mujeres

Conjunto de valores

Alimento


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Mujeres

Parece ser que siempre hay un nmero

insuficiente de ellas

No importa si se son mongamos o polgamos


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Poco deseables


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Solucin

Homosexualidad

Poliandria

Prstamo de mujeres


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Importancia

La alimentacin completa depende de la

cooperativa de produccin

Cuntas ms mujeres, ms hay para comer


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Sistema econmico y las reglas tradicionales de

la divisin del trabajo entre sexos

La vida comn entre hombre y mujer es una

necesidad

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