Comments on: Claude Levi-Strauss

By: Rayedish

Rayedish — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:57:04 +0000

And a thread de-railer to boot!

By: silkworm

silkworm — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:23:04 +0000

PT, you are another piece of racist slime.

By: philip travers

philip travers — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:29:33 +0000

I dropped a n’t from had.Oh!Dear!

By: philip travers

philip travers — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:25:26 +0000

If I had heard of his death [although I read about it last night]from the ABC P.M.then maybe,just to read what Rundle had to say,as expert on the Levi Strauss influence, to see ,if in fact that, that could be more believable.Being low income person whose mother worked on a telephone exchange at a place called Grassdale,famous for being near Merino ,in Victoria,in the year 1958, I found it extremely difficult to accept this man Strauss had been “globally attacked”,or words to that effect,in the 1930s.A transcript of Colvin and PM.will clear up that expression involving the word global.If there is hardly any proof that he was academically excepted in Australia,then there is a high probability that from the very small number of Libraries across Australia that there would be even a water stain smidgin of criticism of his works in the 1930.s.So excuse me,if I just say,lookI know I am not a Jew,but, if you are desperate for a Jewish Intellectual to fill your bloody day,why not an Australian one.Like Ian Cohen MP. struggling against Court costs,forced on him by an American who took exception to being called a thug and bully,whereas from now on,those words need changing too.Tug and Pulley.Thunder and lightning getting loud round here.

By: anthony

anthony — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:07:17 +0000

All great thinkers were great underminers and Levi-Strauss was the great underminers of the dehumanising assumptions of colonialism.
By bringing together the commonality of humanity he moved the ball along from the Enlightenment’s Rights of Man stalling at who gets to be a man with rights. He was in the second half of his long life before Aboriginal Australians got the vote.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:21:02 +0000

Not bad, a jeans pun in the first comment.

By: whitefrankblack

whitefrankblack — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:08:02 +0000

Rest in jeans, Claude.