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Professor Goody's research in West Africa resulted in finding an alternative way of thinking about 'traditional' societies.

As the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Lévi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought. Through a m

We began as savages, and savagery has served us well—it got us where we are. But how do our tribal impulses, still in place and in play, fit in the highly com

Discusses the significance of totemism among primitive peoples and its interpretation by anthropologists and philosophies.