Levi-Stros: UNESCO = antropologija : politika
LEVI-STRAUSS : UNESCO = ANTHROPOLOGY : POLITICS

Author(s): Ljiljana Gavrilović
Subject(s): Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Applied Sociology
Published by: Srpski genealoški centar
Keywords: Levi-Strauss; UNESO; polticis; race; culture; heritage protection
Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses Levi-Strauss engagement in UNESO activities. On the one hand, Levi-Strauss engagement in Pakistan had an important impact on his later work, as well as on his overall view about the world and culture(s); while on the other, Levi-Strauss's definitions of the relationship between race/nation and culture had an important influen-ce on the ways in which UNESO dealt with the ideas about culture and on the ways these ideas were implemented in its global strategies of action in/towards culture. On the one hand, this engagement included a delivery of the European world view (as a superior one) to everyone who does not have it; while on the other, it also meant a protection of ma-terial remains of different cultures world-wide and protec-tion of non-material heritage and/as entire 'Othernness', whenever it is located, and (at least in theory) however it looks like. In that sense, Levi-Strauss public engagement had an important impact not only on anthropology, as a discipli-ne that he dedicated his life to, but also to the formation of contemporary understanding of politically correct relationship towards the 'Other'.

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