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> No one doubts that CL-S was lots of fun for everyone, and Harris was a = > boring materialist of interest only to those within the profession. = > Small wonder, then, that one cites philosophers and epistemology in = > order to justify what to insiders was plain old shoddiness bordering on = > pomposity and outright quackery ////>As I remember from the sixties and > seventies, all of this stood as an =>enormous embarrassment to serious > French anthropologists such as Panof, =>Barreau, Delfendahl, Jaulin, > Gaudlier, Clastres et al, who had to deal =>with the quotidian idiocies > of a system which accorded CL-S mandarin =>status. The French obsession > with binarism dates back to Descartes, and =>what, ostensibly all French > scientists desired was to be finished once =>and for all with "doing > great Seventeenth century Science".=20 Hmmm. Anyone prepared to overcome the embarrassment of being interested in shoddy old French intellectuals might like to look at the collection of Levi-Strauss' photographs archived by Scala as part of his centenary this year: http://www.scalarchives.com/web/ricerca_risultati.asp?SC_PROV=COLL&IdCollection=79362 Erica Sheen * * Film-Philosophy salon After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. * Film-Philosophy journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com Contact: [log in to unmask] **