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" "Il ne peut y avoir une civilisation mondiale puisque la civilisation implique la coexistence de cultures offrant entre elles le maximum de diversité.
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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Antropologlar, yaşam biçimlerimizin, inandığımız değerlerin, mümkün olan yegâne yaşam biçimleri ve değerler olmadığını; başka yaşam tarzlarının, başka değer sistemlerinin de insan topluluklarının mutluluğa ulaşmasına imkân vermiş olduğunu ve hâlâ da vermeye devam ettiğini kanıtlamaya çalışırlar. Dolayısıyla antropoloji, böbürlenmelerimize gem vurmaya, başka yaşam tarzlarına saygı duymaya, bizi şaşırtan, şoke eden ya da tiksindiren başka usulleri öğrenmek suretiyle kendimizi sorgulamaya çağırır bizleri.
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Antropoloğun kendine özgü kültürler arasındaki farklara gösterdiği dikkat ve duyduğu saygı, yaklaşımının özünü oluşturur.
I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions. But how long it has taken me to make up my mind to do so! It is now fifteen years since I left Brazil for the last time and all during this period I have often planned to undertake the present work but on each occasion a sort of shame and repugnance prevented me from making a start. Why, I asked myself, should I give a detailed account of so many trivial circumstances and insignificant happenings? Adventure has no place in the anthropologists profession; it is merely one of those unavoidable drawbacks, which detract from his effective work through the incidental loss of weeks or months; there are hours of inaction when the informant is not available; periods of hunger, exhaustion, sickness perhaps; and always the thousand and one dreary tasks which eat away the days to no purpose and reduce dangerous living in the heart of the virgin forest to an imitation of military service … The fact that so much effort and expenditure has to be wasted on reaching the object of our studies bestows no value on that aspect of our profession, and should be seen rather as its negative side. The truths which we seek so far afield only become valid when we have separated them from this dross.
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