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Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alon… - Claude Lévi-Strauss
" "Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone have been able to create or preserve it. It is the outcome of an objective relationship between the individual and the space he occupies, between the consumer and the resources at his disposal.
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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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