Claude Lévi-Strauss (pronounced |/klod levi stʁos/) (born November 28, 1908) is a French anthropologist who became one of the twentieth century's greatest intellectuals by developing structuralism as a method of understanding human society and culture. Claude Lévi-Strauss - Biography. Claude Lévi-Strauss is an anthropologist best known for his development of structural anthropology. He was born in Brussels and studied law and philosophy at the Sorbon ...

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Lévi-Strauss's theories are set forth in Structural Anthropology (1958). Briefly, he considers culture a system of symbolic communication, to be investigated with methods that others have used more narrowly in the discussion of novels, political speeches, sports, and movies. His reasoning makes best sense against the background of an earlier generation's social theory. He wrote about this relationship for decades. A preference for "functionalist" explanations dominated the social sciences from the turn of the century th ...

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Claude Lévi-Strauss is an anthropologist best known for his development of structural anthropology. He was born in Brussels and studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris. He did not pursue his study of law, but agrégated in philosophy in 1931. After a few years of teaching secondary school, in 1935 he took up a last-minute offer to be part of a French cultural mission to Brazil in which he would serve as a v ...

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Neo-tribalist ideology is rooted in the social philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and in the Evolutionary Principle of anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, which states that a species removed from the environment in which it evolved will become pathological. Certain aspects of industrial and post-industrial life, including the necessity of living in a society of strangers and interacting with organizations that have memberships far above Dunbar's number are cited as inherently detrimental to the human mind as it has evolved. Recently some su ...

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Critics have pointed out that membership in modern "tribes" is voluntary and shallow, i.e. not based on deep cultural traditions and kinship ties. Therefore it is argued neo-Tribalism is likely to be nothing more than a fad - if it even really exists outside the minds of certain pundits and weekend hobbyists. From another angle, detractors often accuse neo-Tribalists of insulting traditional indigenous cultures through insincere and innacurate imitation, thereby reviving ...

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Radical neo-Tribalists, such as John Zerzan, Daniel Quinn and others associated with the New tribalists, believe that healthy tribal life can only thrive after technological civilzation has either been destroyed or severely reduced in scope. Quinn formulated the concept of "walking away," abandoning civilization as a whole and constructing a new, tribal culture on its periphery. Others, such as Derrick Jensen, tend to call for more violent action, as they believe that it is appropriate and necessary to actively accelerate or cause a collapse ...

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Moderate neo-Tribalists believe that a tribal social structure can co-exist with a modern technological infrastructure. This is sometimes referred to as Urban Tribalism. For example, under this scenario, people might reside in a large house or other building with a communal group of 12-20 individuals all abiding by a defined set of rules, cultural rituals and intimate relationships, but otherwise leading modern lives, going to a job, driving a car, etc. In that it attempts to harmonize two seemingly contradictory cultures, namely modern existence and tribalism, the moderate tendency can be consider ...

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The French Sociologist Michel Maffesoli was perhaps the first to use the term neo-Tribalism in a scholarly context. Maffesoli predicted that as the culture and institutions of modernism declined, societies would look to the organizational priciples of the distant past for guidance, and that therefore the post-modern era would be the era of neo-Tribalism. Commentators such as Ethan Watters have credited, or blamed, growing neo-Tribalist dynamics for contributing to the decline in marriage in the developed world, as "modern trib ...

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