Tag Archives: Claude Levi-Strauss

rights set loose in the wild

Is there an ambiguity, a gap between formal freedom , formal democracy as practice and ritual: constitutional rights and freedoms, and an economic reality of liberty and a relative value, similar to Heidegger’s cultural relativism, and the inherent income disparities. … Continue reading

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the storyteller: wayfaring in the tundra

In the development of some of the legends, the folklore, the myth, strands from Inuit traditions and Western traditions merge. An exhibit by a French born, Canadian priest who spent fifty years at Inlet Pond in the far north of … Continue reading

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poussin the golden: divine means of abstract geometrical truth

He tried to live in France from 1640-42, called back by King Louis XIII and the urging of Cardinal Richelieu who felt it imperative that France had greater artistic luster.Claude Lorrain was also compelled to return. Poussin had been appointed … Continue reading

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is-real-thing: endless solutions

It is difficult to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian issue in anything approaching what could be termed a “common sense” way. The conventional wisdom is that we are even handed, or that some form of pseudo-historical junk science as religion “special status” … Continue reading

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BUG OFF ON THE AMAZON: “They Will Offer No Civilities”

When the Indians assemble here the stranger may have an opportunity of seeing the aborigines dancing to the sound of their country music and painted in their native style. They will shoot their arrows for him with an unerring aim and send the … Continue reading

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KARL POPPER & SEEING IS BELIEVING: INDUCTION,DEDUCTION and SEDUCTION

” Well, I don’t think the bridge is all that immediate, but I do think you could develop a theory of art according to which art is a method of creating responses.( Karl ) Popper once said or wrote that … Continue reading

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MONTEZUMA & THE LAST SUPPER

”Through cannibalism, the Aztecs appear to have been attempting to reduce very particular nutritional deficiencies. Under the conditions of high population pressure and class stratification that characterized the Aztec state, commoners or lower-class persons rarely had the opportunity to eat … Continue reading

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DEPARTMENT OF ABERRATIONS

French artist Jean Dubuffet( 1901-1985) said that he was not a revolutionary but a permanent subversive. His work. however, coincided with attempts in other fields to dispute the accepted values of Western culture.The ethnologist Claude Levi-Strauss had convincingly shown that … Continue reading

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Crocodile Hunting in Berlin

Until Death Do Us Part…But until then there is a lot of road to haul. How does one explain a condition  that has been genetically stamped into humanity since the origins of the oral tradition and the hieroglyphic scrawling of … Continue reading

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