The cities of Claude Lévi-Strauss

• Grant number: 22/12684-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Master's degree
• Start date: January 01, 2023
• End date: June 30, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Theory of Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Sylvia Caiuby Novaes
• Grantee: Jeferson Carvalho da Silva
• Supervisor: Frédéric Keck
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Collège de France, France
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/05272-5 - The cities of Lévi-Strauss: graphic experiments around the city-making, BP.MS

Abstract

This research project aims to investigate the archives and documents of the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, held in collections and libraries based in France. This proposal is placed in continuity with the master's research, funded by FAPESP, whose main objective is to understand and present the perspectives of Claude Lévi-Strauss about the phenomenon of cities through the study of his life and work. For that, this research proposes the investigation of descriptions and reports about cities, in texts and images, made by the anthropologist throughout his travels and trajectory. Documents such as correspondences, drawings, photographs, notes, and fieldwork notebooks to be investigated in French archives - Bibliothèque nationale de France, Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes, Musée du quai Branly, and Bibliothèque Claude Lévi-Strauss - can certainly complement and broaden the understanding of Lévi-Strauss' perspectives about the phenomenon of cities, and, in addition, about his creative processes of making his works and reflections. (AU)