Silviano Santiago: Praise and Critique of Lévi-Strauss, or Lévi-Strauss as Text and Good Pretext

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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.30.1.83-94

Keywords:

Silviano Santiago, Lévi-Strauss, Ethnology, in-between, Anthropology, metropolis

Abstract

This text analyses Silviano Santiago’s book A literature in the Tropics, which has turned its 40th anniversary in 2018, consolidating its vocation as a “formation book”. The essay focuses on tracing several chapters of this work and thus highlights the concept of “the space in-between”, created, according to its own author, from the Brazilian writer’s experimental-existential chaos and from his movement between the metropolitan discourse and the colonial production. The text aims, moreover, at showing, in the course of the work, how the Claude Lévi-Strauss’ figure occupies certain spaces. Whereas the ethnologist of the first chapter is the hero of Sad Tropics, the anthropologist of the last text of A literature in the Tropics is that of Elementary structures of kinship and of the vast project entitled Mythologicals which, in this case, behaves as a great structural “adversary”.

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Author Biography

Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz, Universidade de São Paulo

Professora titular do Departamento de Antropologia - FFLCH/USP. Global visiting professor of Princeton.

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Published

2020-03-31

How to Cite

Katri Moritz Schwarcz, L. (2020). Silviano Santiago: Praise and Critique of Lévi-Strauss, or Lévi-Strauss as Text and Good Pretext. Aletria: Revista De Estudos De Literatura, 30(1), 83–94. https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.30.1.83-94

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 1 (2020): 40 Anos de Uma Literatura nos Trópicos: “Entre-Lugar”, “Cosmopolitismo”, “Inserção”

Section

Geral e Diálogos com Áreas

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