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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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A day will come when the idea that for the sake of food the people of the past raised and massacred living beings and with complete equanimity displayed their flesh in bits and pieces in shop windows, will no doubt inspire the same revulsion that the cannibalistic meals of the Americans, Oceanians, or Africans inspired in the travelers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
C’est un métier, maintenant, que d’être explorateur ; métier qui consiste, non pas, comme on pourrait le croire, à découvrir au terme d’années studieuses des faits restés inconnus, mais à parcourir un nombre élevé de kilomètres et à rassembler des projections fixes ou animées, de préférence en couleurs, grâce à quoi on remplira une salle, plusieurs jours de suite, d’une foule d’auditeurs auxquels des platitudes et des banalités sembleront miraculeusement transmutées en révélations pour la seule raison qu’au lieu de les démarquer sur place, leur auteur les aura sanctifiées par un parcours de vingt mille kilomètres.
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