%0 Journal Article
%T L¨¦vi-Strauss, Ci¨ºncia e Ren¨²ncia
%A Oscar Cal¨¢via Saez
%J Campos - Revista de Antropologia Social
%D 2008
%I Universidade Federal do Paran¨¢
%X Claude L¨¦vi-Strauss has long been described as the most complete representative of modernist anthropology, branded for its scientificism, immobilizing formalism and deployment of hard* science models, as opposed to history and subjectivity. Recent reviews of his works, particularly the Mythologiques, have emphasized quite different values, stressing more sophisticated concepts of history, a notion of structure based in variation and transformation and a poetical resolution of anthropology¡¯s epistemological purposes. This article sustains that, despite some misinterpretations caused by superficial readings, it is possible to recognize both these sets of traits in the author¡¯s works. Besides, the ¡°two¡± different L¨¦vi-Strauss that come into view do not represent different moments of a reformulated intellectual project, but rather the alternative between scientific knowledge, limited as per definition, and the much wider universe of that which cannot be expressed scientifically. This science/renunciation pair is a considerable alternative to the ¨C at once confusing and totalizing ¨C hegemonic project of human sciences.
%K L¨¦vi-Strauss
%K science
%K structuralism
%U http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/campos/article/view/15861/10822