Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature; this second object requires from us a new ef… - Claude Lévi-Strauss

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Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature; this second object requires from us a new effort which destroys it in favor of a third, and so on and so forth until we reach the one lasting presence, the point at which the distinction between meaning and the absence of meaning disappears: the same point from which we began.

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About Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908 - 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

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Alternative Names: Klod Levi-Stros Claude Levi-Strauss Claude Gustave Levi-Strauss Lévi-Strauss, Claude קלוד לוי-שטראוס
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El etnógrafo, a la vez que admitiéndose humano, trata de conocer y juzgar al hombre desde un punto de vista suficientemente elevado y distante para abstraerlo de las contingencias particulares de tal o cual sociedad o civilización. Sus condiciones de vida y de trabajo lo excluyen físicamente de su grupo durante largos períodos; por la violencia de los cambios a los que se expone, adquiere una especie de desarraigo crónico: nunca más, en ninguna parte, volverá a sentirse en su casa; quedará psicológicamente mutilado. Como la matemática o la música, la etnografía constituye una de esas raras vocaciones auténticas. Uno puede descubrirla en sí mismo, aunque no se la hayan enseñado.

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Journeys, those magic caskets full of dreamlike promises, will never again yield up their treasures untarnished. A proliferating and overexcited civilization has broken the silence of the seas once and for all. The perfumes of the tropics and the pristine freshness of human beings have been corrupted by a busyness with dubious implications, which mortifies our desires and dooms us to acquire only contaminated memories.

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