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Claude Lévi-Strauss par lui-même

2008 · 93 min

A quiet, cerebral sit with a great thinker, rewarding patience with the slow pleasure of watching an elegant mind unfold.

Directed by
Pierre-André Boutang
Overview
In what way can reflecting on worlds very far from our own, either in space or time, bear relevance for us today? Is there a scientific legacy - a before and after Lévi-Strauss - in anthropology? This documentary retraces the intellectual path of the author of "Tristes tropiques" ("A World on the Wane") and "La Pensée sauvage" ("The Savage Mind"), Claude Lévi-Strauss. The anthropologist and founder of structural anthropology in France is portrayed via numerous selected extracts of interviews he has given since the 1960s. The film is a fascinating introduction into the mind of a man who is interested in all men. Lévi-Strauss has great confidence (in spite of a pessimistic view of our contemporary world) in the creative capacities of the human mind.

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  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
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  • identity
  • memory
  • art
  • science
  • politics
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adult
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  • true story
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