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People who are without writing have a fantastically precise knowledge of their environment and all their resources. All these things we have lost, bu… - Claude Lévi-Strauss
" "People who are without writing have a fantastically precise knowledge of their environment and all their resources. All these things we have lost, but we did not lose them for nothing; we are now able to drive an automobile without being crushed at each moment, for example, or in the evening to turn on our television or radio. This implies a training of mental capacities which ‘primitive’ peoples don’t have because they don’t need them.
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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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Klod Levi-Stros
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Claude Levi-Strauss
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Claude Gustave Levi-Strauss
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Lévi-Strauss, Claude
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קלוד לוי-שטראוס
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Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also — for better or for worse — takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.
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