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A news item involving Claude Lévi-Strauss was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 4 November 2009.

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Should something be added here about post-structural criticism?

I wonder if this article does not present a broad enough view of Lévi-Strauss in ignoring the criticism he has attracted from Derrida and others; as the previous contributors might know it was partly the reaction to Lévi-Strauss' reductive theories that gave rise to the amalgam of philosophies sometimes termed as 'post-structuralism.' The article does say some of his later work is "controversial" but perhaps that could be expounded on; comments welcome. -- Simonides 05:11, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)

looks great!

It does seem surprising that the article makes no mention of Derrida whatsoever. --Quadalpha (talk) 04:55, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Obviously it's deliberately not mentioned, because the world now is dominated (and oblireated) by Levi-Strauss's malicious intentions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.99.238.192 (talk) 07:50, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that Derrida should be mentioned, particularly his famous address at John Hopkins U where he first presented "Sign, Structure, and Play." --Matt (talk) 12:36, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

For the article to be complete yes it should describe poststructuralism in social theory as a reaction to Levi-strauss. But as it is now the article doesnt even describe Levi-Strauss own ideas, so it dosnt make much sense to start adding a detailed critique.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 16:41, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed outline

This article is pretty good, but is long enough that some headers would be of assistance. This reveals that it is somewhat scattered, with an entire paragraph about how marriage customs interested him, followed by 22 paragraphs, and then another two paragraphs on the same subject. Therefore, I propose an outline:

Intro
Philosophy
Anthropological context
Marriage customs
Conclusion

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Vague

I have a vague memory of seeing Levi-Strauss copying passages from a book of abstract algebra. Perhaps someone can find the reference for this pseudo-maths of his. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.132.251.193 (talk) 11:44, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Andre Weil wrote a few pages as an appendix for The elementary structures of Kinship and the topic was commented see . e.g. L. Haddad, Y. Sureau, J. of Pure and Applied Algebra, 87, 21 July 1993, Issue 3, Pages 221–235.195.96.229.83 (talk) 10:50, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Birnbaum

Birnbaum attributes support by Lévi-Strauss for his theories here: https://www.summametaphysica.com.

This is incredibly hard to believe, since Birnbaum's "philosophy" is complete hokum. Is there anyone here with first-hand knowledge of L-S's views and relationship with Birnbaum? 07:28, 29 September 2022 (UTC) 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:71D5:30E6:A09A:3350 (talk) 07:28, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]