Đôi vai của những người khổng lồ: Claude Levi-Strauss và di sản của ông trong nhân học đương đại [The shoulders of our giants: Claude Lévi-Strauss and his legacy in current anthropology]

Albert Doja (1)

1 Université de Lille

This article provides evidence that in the course of anti-structural criticism the main thrust of the epistemological approach of Lévi-Strauss seems to have been lost to the collective detriment of social sciences and anthropology. By its monumental character, Lévi-Strauss's work evokes that of the founders of anthropology, whereas by the way in which it puts in relation the cultural and the mental, it anticipates a theoretical anthropology to come, with the ambition to provide a rigorous method of anthropological inquiry coming close to scientific knowledge. The fundamental point remains the emancipation of structural approach out of the linguistic model toward a new context of science and technology, as exemplified in mathematics, information science, cybernetics, and game theory, which made it possible for structural anthropology to innovatively account for the social systems and praxis of competitive and strategic practices.

Au cours du criticisme anti-structuraliste, l'objectif central de l'approche épistémologique de Lévi-Strauss semble avoir été perdu au détriment collectif de l'anthropologie et des sciences sociales. Par son caractère monumental, l'œuvre de Lévi-Strauss évoque celle des fondateurs de l'anthropologie, alors que par la façon dont elle met en rapport le culturel et le mental, elle anticipe sur une anthropologie théorique à venir, avec l'ambition de fournir une méthode rigoureuse d'investigation anthropologique proche du savoir scientifique. Le point fondamental reste l'émancipation de l'approche structurale hors du modèle linguistique, vers un nouveau contexte scientifique et technologique illustré en mathématiques, sciences de l'information, cybernétique et théorie des jeux, qui permet à l'anthropologie structurale de rendre compte de façon innovatrice des systèmes sociaux comme de la praxis des pratiques compétitives et stratégiques.

Mots clés: history of anthropology; anthropological theory; Lévi-Strauss

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Albert Doja. Đôi vai của những người khổng lồ: Claude Levi-Strauss và di sản của ông trong nhân học đương đại [The shoulders of our giants: Claude Lévi-Strauss and his legacy in current anthropology]. Journal Donation Project, 2007, http://www.newschool.edu/centers/jdp/subject_area_group_translations.aspx?s=11:5. ⟨halshs-00405953⟩