Word: levi-strauss
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...organize time and myth with music; we mark our lives by it. The death by assassination of John Lennon was an event that mingled music and myth and completed the relationship between the two. Music, as the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss once said, "unites the contrary attributes of being both intelligible and untranslatable...
When King does attempt his own thesis, applying not only Freud, but Hegel, Weber, Neitzshe, Levi-Strauss, and Marx to the Southern burden, his grandiose designs appear pretentious at best, silly at worst. Almost randomly, King inserts short paragraphs alluding to Levi-Strauss's Elementary Structures of Kinship to back up his thesis on incest as repetition. King is not afraid, unfortunately, to make sweeping one-line statements about Freud's memory theories or characterize, without explaining, Cash as the "Weberian ideal type." King incessantly refers to these sociological and psychological giants with college freshman zeal: proud of his discovery...
...book is original and thought-provoking yet, throughout, one should remember that 16th century warning about relying on the clever for unbiased information. Certainly, Cannibals and Kings is entertaining and unburdened by the gobbledygook much recent writing on sociology is infamous for. Its chief fault is its glibness. Levi-Strauss, discussing the theories of geographer-turned-anthropologist Boas, wrote: "Social experiences and those constant interactions between the group and the individual cannot be inferred; they must be observed...
...MEAN to imply that there is nothing to what Dr. Levi-Strauss said. Dr. Herrnstein, the genetics specialist, told me that anyone with the chromosomes of both the great trouser manufacturing family and the famous Viennese composer was sure to be a smart guy. However, I tend to side more with Dr. Freud and see that Dr. Levi-Strauss's having the first name "Claude" forced him to compensate creatively for what he lacked as a person. In fact, I think some of the flaws in Dr. Levi-Strauss's thinking personally and structuralism generally stem from an unconscious overcompensation...
...raise, the workers must fulfill unbearably demanding production quotas, such as sewing six belts per minute onto finished slacks when most say that it is possible to do only five. Bishop Metzger estimates that employees take home an average $69 per week, while unionized workers at the Levi-Strauss and Tex-Togs plants in El Paso net $102. That, says the bishop, "sounds more like a living wage...