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Panorama of Ethnology 1950-1952

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2024

Claude Lévi-Strauss
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A panorama of ethnological studies during the last two or three years must cover considerations as apparently remote as the margin of error in estimating the age of radio-active elements on the one hand and, on the other, the question of whether ethnology originates from the sciences of Man or the sciences of Nature. This widening of the scope of ethnological studies is matched by the widening of public interest in ethnological problems, or, to put it more precisely, in problems presented in the terms and by the aid of ethnological formulae. It should be noted, moreover, that also the traditional domain of ethnology is in a process of expansion, stretching from the study of the so-called savage or primitive social forms, without hesitating any longer, to the field of modern society and its most complex activities.

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Diogenes , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , March 1953 , pp. 69 - 92
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Copyright © 1953 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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2 New York: Viking Fund, 1949.

3 Maya Hieroglyphic Writing: Introduction. Publ. No. 589. Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1950.

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32 Among recent contributions to anthropology from the Soviet Union, published there or elsewhere, we should like to mention the work of V. N. Tcheretsov, D. A. Olderogge, A. Kondaurov, F. D. Gourevich, all of which was published between 1946 and 1950 in specialised Soviet journals; mention should further be made of the important study of R. Jakobson, ‘Slavic Mythology', in Funk and Wagnall's Standard Dictionary of Folklore (New York, 1950); the Atlas to the Prehistory of the Slavs, by K. Jazdzewski (2 volumes, Acta Praehistorica, I, Lodz, 1948-49); and, finally, the monograph of Th. Chodzilo, Die Familie bei den Jakuten (‘Internationale Schriftenreihe für Soziale und Politische Wissen schaften'. Freiburg, 1951).

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47 Childhood and Society. New York, 1951.

48 Child Problems Among the Arabs: Studies in a Muhammedan Village in Palestine. Helsingfors-Copenhagen, 1950. Two volumes were published previously.

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59 cf. J. von Neumann and O. Morgenstern, Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, Princeton, 1944; N. Wiener, Cybernetics, Paris/New York, 1948; C. Shannon and W. Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Urbana: The University of Illinois, 1949; Colloque sur la Cybernétique, edited by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, under the chairmanship of Louis de Broglie. Paris, 1951.

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61 cf., for example, A. Schaeffner, Une socíété noire et ses instruments de musique. Paris: L'Homme, 1951. His observations seem to contradict those ofJ. F. Carrington, as expounded in ‘A Com parative Study of Some Central African Gong Languages', Institut Royal Colonial Belge, Sciences morales et politiques, Mem. xviii, 3, 1949.

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