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[msmidge]

Yesterday I was reading some stuff about kinship theory in anthropology and the authors described Lévi-Strauss's structuralist theory as having "put [Durkheim's] theory out of its misery." It cracked me up. I kept imagining Durkheim's totem theory staggering around gasping "help meeeeeee....." and then Lévi-Strauss comes along and it's like Old Yeller or something. Anthropologists don't usually have much of a sense of humor, at least not in writing, so I appreciated very much this one little remark.

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[the-ocean.livejournal.com]

ah, comic relief!