I don't have the feeling that I write my books. I have the feeling that my books get written through me and once they have got across me I feel empty… - Claude Lévi-Strauss

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I don't have the feeling that I write my books. I have the feeling that my books get written through me and once they have got across me I feel empty and nothing is left.

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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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The entire village left the next day in about thirty canoes, leaving us alone with the women and children in the abandoned houses. [Le village entier partit le lendemain dans une trentaine de pirogues, nous laissant seuls avec les femmes et les enfants dans les maisons abandonnées.]

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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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