19. LEVI-STRAUSS: Cracking the Code of Culture скачать в хорошем качестве

19. LEVI-STRAUSS: Cracking the Code of Culture

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a pre-eminent French academic who revolutionised the social sciences by developing the framework of structuralism. This biographical overview traces his intellectual journey from early fieldwork in Brazil to his influential analysis of kinship systems and mythology, which he viewed as organised networks of symbolic relations. By identifying binary oppositions, such as the distinction between the raw and the cooked, he argued that human culture is built upon universal underlying patterns that bridge the gap between nature and society. Ultimately, the text illustrates how his theories provided a transdisciplinary methodology that reshaped diverse fields ranging from linguistics to psychoanalysis, cementing his legacy as a pillar of modern thought.