Depois de Lévi-Strauss: um olhar sobre a antropologia francesa contemporânea

Authors

  • Erwan Dianteill Universidade de Paris Descartes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77012010000100001

Keywords:

social anthropology, ethnography, epistemology, France, Lévi-Strauss

Abstract

French anthropologists are heirs of Claude Lévi-Strauss, in the sense that he has defined a set of concepts, methods, paradigms they accept, transform or criticize. We can identify three epistemological trends in contemporary French anthropology, all of whom have a connection with the work of Lévi-Strauss. The first trend is inspired by structuralism, in its intention to describe "universals". The second one takes the opposite position, as its main object is the interpenetration of cultures and societies. The third is experiential: how can we describe our subjective relation to otherness? These three trends find their origin in the famous distinction between anthropology, ethnology and ethnography, coined originally by Lévi-Strauss.

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Published

2010-01-01

Issue

Vol. 53 No. 1 (2010)

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How to Cite

Dianteill, E. (2010). Depois de Lévi-Strauss: um olhar sobre a antropologia francesa contemporânea. Revista De Antropologia, 53(1), 11-38. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77012010000100001