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So far other companies such as Levi-Strauss and Google are pledging to fight against Proposition 8.
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Claude Levi-Strauss famously described music as the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
Striking a False Note Raymond Tallis 2011
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Outside the social breakdown of the annual feast, as everyone knew from reading Claude Levi-Strauss, even tribal societies observe certain standards of decorum.
One of Us Con Chapman 2011
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I recall seeing an early 60s Australian ethnographic film in New Guinea, where the filmmaker was clearly influenced heavily by Levi-Strauss and presented most of the material in terms of the Structuralism that was more or less at its height at the time.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Yes I get ffkn grmpy whn I’m on fkn deadline. 2009
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Levi-Strauss and a bunch of French dudes posited that humans just naturally think in terms of binary oppositions.
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Following him, or Bateson or Goffman or parts of Levi-Strauss, anthropologists could look at more than social relations, or better put at more than just function.
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I just knew that some eager young grad student in the audience would ask me a question about the Levi-Strauss quotation I considered including, and I would be screwed, to put it lightly [NOTE: as it turned out, there were precisely two people in the audience, and one was a good friend of mine, so it didn't really matter].
Priorities Prof. de Breeze 2008
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I just knew that some eager young grad student in the audience would ask me a question about the Levi-Strauss quotation I considered including, and I would be screwed, to put it lightly [NOTE: as it turned out, there were precisely two people in the audience, and one was a good friend of mine, so it didn't really matter].
Archive 2008-05-01 Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Only twelve days ago we celebrated Claude Levi-Strauss turning 100.
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Levi-Strauss and a bunch of French dudes posited that humans just naturally think in terms of binary oppositions.
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