 | Carole Counihan - 1999 - Počet stránok 268
...(1963a, 89) was referring in his oftquoted statement that certain animal species are chosen as totems "not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'" Foods have and convey meanings because they are part of complex systems; "food categories ... encode... | |
 | Kenneth F. Kiple, Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas - 2000 - Počet stránok 1068
...(1963a: 89) was referring in his oft-quoted statement that certain animal species are chosen as totems "not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.' " Foods have and convey meanings because they are part of complex systems; "food categories . . . encode... | |
 | Steve Baker - 2001 - Počet stránok 284
...Levi-Strauss, Totemism. translated by Rodney Needham (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973). pp.161-2 ('in totemism ... natural species are chosen not because they are "good to eat" but because they are "good to think'"). See also SJ Tambiah. 'Animals are good to think and good to prohibit'. Ethnology, 8(1969). pp.423-59.... | |
 | Marvin Harris - 2001 - Počet stránok 414
...reflect thoughts rather than appetites? Can it be that our meals consist of certain foods not so much because they are good to eat but because they are good to think? Yes, says Levi-Strauss. People select foods for the messages they convey rather than for the calories... | |
 | Mary Douglas - 2003 - Počet stránok 328
...nature. Between Levi-Strauss' message and sign-oriented intellectualism, represented in the statement that natural species are chosen not because they are good to eat but because they are good to think, and the actor-oriented moralism of Fortes, (1967), represented in the statement that animals are good... | |
 | Rod Preece - 2002 - Počet stránok 436
...French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss stated famously that Aboriginals think through animals: "they are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think [with].'"90 Hugo preceded him by over a century (as had Christopher Smart by almost two-anda-half centuries91).... | |
 | Louise E. Robbins - 2002 - Počet stránok 374
...often-repeated phrase, anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss remarked that societies accord animals special status not because they are "good to eat" but because they are "good to think."4 According to LeviStrauss and other anthropologists, the meanings cultures ascribe to animals... | |
 | Christopher Johnson - 2003 - Počet stránok 222
...signification. To use the memorable distinction made by Levi-Strauss in Totemism, natural species are selected not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think' (7, 89; TA, 132).31 The intellectualist bias of Totemism and The Savage Mind is entirely characteristic... | |
 | Edmund Ronald Leach - 2004 - Počet stránok 222
...relations conceived by speculative thought on the basis of empirical observation. We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are..."good to eat" but because they are "good to think" ( (Levi-Strauss, 1962a, p. 127; 1964a, p. 89). In the final chapter, Levi-Strauss shows the unexpected... | |
 | Pertti Alasuutari - 2004 - Počet stránok 198
...species of animals and plants' (Malinowski 1948: 29). Against this formulation, Lévi-Strauss insisted that 'natural species are chosen not because they..."good to eat" but because they are "good to think"' (Lévi-Strauss 1963: 89), and it is indeed hard to disprove his argumentation. It would be very difficult... | |
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We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are good to eat but because they are 'good to think. 
