Luz baixa sob neblina: Por uma antropologia das oscilações em Claude Lévi-Strauss

Abstract

This essay aims to assemble the different considerations made by Claude Lévi-Strauss about the myth in The story of lynx, book that can be seen as both a recapitulation and a revised coda to the six volumes on mythology that preceded it. Furthermore, our undertaking also leads us to the crystallization of some perspectives diffusely glimpsed at throughout the author's works, trying to extract some unforeseen consequences from structuralism's more explicit proposals. We try to make sets of seeming alternatives put in action by Lévi-Strauss's thought collide, recognizing a productive tension among possible glides and sedimentations. Even though it's true that The story of lynx concerns itself less with the human spirit and more with amerindian bodies, this choice does not dispose entirely of a certain 'nostalgia' (however concealed or umbrose) according to which the institution of a higher synthesis would be desirable. From the oscillation between both drives arise the basis for a post-structuralist anthropology.