ANTHROP 4F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Circular Reasoning, Totem, Palimpsest
23 Apr 2018
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Landscape can be described as palimpsest in terms of how it is understood. Landscape is a culmination of past landscapes (palimpsest) Palimpsest gives you an idea of time. Landscapes make people and people make landscapes. Why (more generalized) nomothetic concerned with laws/ primary principles: explain regularities (e. g. what it means to be human) Levi-strauss goes back to durkheim"s work on primitive thinking. 1949 levi-strauss" first books, followed by 1955 works and other works. Levi-strauss didn"t do a lot of field work and used the work of other archaeologists. Exchange on social structure (friction of society and how it holds together) subject of first book. More useful to look at a certain point in time. More interested in model and how it actually works. Levi-strauss something is there even if you can"t articulate it. Understanding all the ways humans behave by understanding structure. Grammar of the structure like an engine; key components of what it means to be human source phenomenon.
