Comments on: Claude Lévi-Strauss dies at 100 http://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/11/claude-levi-strauss-dies-at-100/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:17:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Claude Lévy-Strauss - Un article de Le Blog d’Albert Amgar http://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/11/claude-levi-strauss-dies-at-100/comment-page-1/#comment-33176 Claude Lévy-Strauss - Un article de Le Blog d’Albert Amgar Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:18:28 +0000 http://www.foodpolitics.com/?p=1704#comment-33176 [...] lira aussi l’hommage de Marion Nestle « Claude Lévi-Strauss dies at 100 [...] [...] lira aussi l’hommage de Marion Nestle « Claude Lévi-Strauss dies at 100 [...]

]]> By: Anthro http://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/11/claude-levi-strauss-dies-at-100/comment-page-1/#comment-33075 Anthro Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:42:50 +0000 http://www.foodpolitics.com/?p=1704#comment-33075 I will never forget writing papers on Levi-Strauss readings in my Myth, Magic, and Ritual class as a senior anthropology student. There was an unspoken pressure to try to write in his impenetrable style to supposedly prove that you actually understood a word he wrote! It's nice to see that someone from another field has even heard of the great man, thanks for the post. I will never forget writing papers on Levi-Strauss readings in my Myth, Magic, and Ritual class as a senior anthropology student. There was an unspoken pressure to try to write in his impenetrable style to supposedly prove that you actually understood a word he wrote!

It’s nice to see that someone from another field has even heard of the great man, thanks for the post.

]]> By: Barbara Tagliaferro http://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/11/claude-levi-strauss-dies-at-100/comment-page-1/#comment-33060 Barbara Tagliaferro Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:11:54 +0000 http://www.foodpolitics.com/?p=1704#comment-33060 Indeed it was a big loss not only for the anthropologists but for everybody as well. Claude Lévi-Strauss introduced many useful concepts and he was a great intellectual. However, as an anthropologist I have a materialist position in the well known discussion about what comes first, categories or activities. To put it in the words of Claude Lévi-Strauss (structuralist) and Marvin Harris (cultural materialist), something is first better to think (classifying the world, and then eat it) or better to eat (and then classifying the world). In this discussion Mary Douglas participated with her study about the abominable animals that don't fit in any category and because that they are forbidden to eat (i.e pork for the Jewish are classified as a ruminant but with split hooves). I personally agree with Harris and his "Good to eat", based on material conditions. But anyway, and particular in these days I think we eat ideas before food when we eat "organic", "local", "healthy" food, which in Lévi-Strauss terms mean classify the world before operating on it. Indeed it was a big loss not only for the anthropologists but for everybody as well. Claude Lévi-Strauss introduced many useful concepts and he was a great intellectual. However, as an anthropologist I have a materialist position in the well known discussion about what comes first, categories or activities. To put it in the words of Claude Lévi-Strauss (structuralist) and Marvin Harris (cultural materialist), something is first better to think (classifying the world, and then eat it) or better to eat (and then classifying the world). In this discussion Mary Douglas participated with her study about the abominable animals that don’t fit in any category and because that they are forbidden to eat (i.e pork for the Jewish are classified as a ruminant but with split hooves).
I personally agree with Harris and his “Good to eat”, based on material conditions. But anyway, and particular in these days I think we eat ideas before food when we eat “organic”, “local”, “healthy” food, which in Lévi-Strauss terms mean classify the world before operating on it.

]]> By: Brian http://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/11/claude-levi-strauss-dies-at-100/comment-page-1/#comment-33059 Brian Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:45:12 +0000 http://www.foodpolitics.com/?p=1704#comment-33059 I'm pretty sure it was Levi-Strauss who wrote (in Tristes Tropiques) that as a child his parents had a sign posted over their kitchen table, "Chew slowly for the sake of your digestion". One of the greats. I’m pretty sure it was Levi-Strauss who wrote (in Tristes Tropiques) that as a child his parents had a sign posted over their kitchen table, “Chew slowly for the sake of your digestion”. One of the greats.

]]> By: Corey http://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/11/claude-levi-strauss-dies-at-100/comment-page-1/#comment-33058 Corey Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:40:03 +0000 http://www.foodpolitics.com/?p=1704#comment-33058 Took me a second to realize that he had nothing to do with jeans. Took me a second to realize that he had nothing to do with jeans.

]]> By: Eric Burkett http://www.foodpolitics.com/2009/11/claude-levi-strauss-dies-at-100/comment-page-1/#comment-33056 Eric Burkett Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:29:56 +0000 http://www.foodpolitics.com/?p=1704#comment-33056 I'm embarrassed to say I didn't realize he was still alive. Thanks for posting this. I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t realize he was still alive. Thanks for posting this.

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