Comments on: Claude dit: http://savageminds.org/2008/11/12/claude-dit-8/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:28:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Carl http://savageminds.org/2008/11/12/claude-dit-8/comment-page-1/#comment-526358 Carl Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:14:00 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1384#comment-526358 I very much like the idea of (our) personality as a unique synthesis of ideas and modes of behavior - the materials are common but not their arrangement. And the last bit on individuality as totem is as nice a gloss of Durkheim from _Division of Labor_ to _Elementary Forms_ as I've seen. For those of us who can't smell Rex firsthand, I wonder if some kind of scratch-and-sniff could be produced for mass distribution? I very much like the idea of (our) personality as a unique synthesis of ideas and modes of behavior – the materials are common but not their arrangement. And the last bit on individuality as totem is as nice a gloss of Durkheim from _Division of Labor_ to _Elementary Forms_ as I’ve seen.

For those of us who can’t smell Rex firsthand, I wonder if some kind of scratch-and-sniff could be produced for mass distribution?

]]> By: ckelty http://savageminds.org/2008/11/12/claude-dit-8/comment-page-1/#comment-525863 ckelty Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:18:43 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1384#comment-525863 actually, I was just thinking of how Rex smells, and how sad it would be to not have that in my life. (reading the rest of the passage in SM might help... it's a classic example of L-S demonstrating how the science of the savage mind is applicable to contemporary society if we only change the terms, in this case totems = personalities) actually, I was just thinking of how Rex smells, and how sad it would be to not have that in my life.

(reading the rest of the passage in SM might help… it’s a classic example of L-S demonstrating how the science of the savage mind is applicable to contemporary society if we only change the terms, in this case totems = personalities)

]]> By: BJG http://savageminds.org/2008/11/12/claude-dit-8/comment-page-1/#comment-525735 BJG Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:15:22 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=1384#comment-525735 I’ve been whizzing by these L-S moments, but while waiting for the rain to ease so I can step out for a sandwich, I’ll bite. I wonder what drew you to this one? My first thoughts were that the statement centralised is dubious. But it later struck me how the reading ‘us’ is both expected to understand to what Rosa centifolia refers, and, more significantly, to have always and already a cultivated sensory appreciation of it. Kneejerk response was a chin stroke and an “aha! The reader is classed!”; more contemplative was to draw a comparison between this and stuff I’ve been reading lately on environmentalism and indigeneity. It has criticised environmentalists for assuming that because they value x species, other populations automatically do too. But I’m conscious of attaching that to one statement, and I’m struggling to move from that to really grasping the rest of the passage. I’ve been whizzing by these L-S moments, but while waiting for the rain to ease so I can step out for a sandwich, I’ll bite.

I wonder what drew you to this one?

My first thoughts were that the statement centralised is dubious. But it later struck me how the reading ‘us’ is both expected to understand to what Rosa centifolia refers, and, more significantly, to have always and already a cultivated sensory appreciation of it. Kneejerk response was a chin stroke and an “aha! The reader is classed!”; more contemplative was to draw a comparison between this and stuff I’ve been reading lately on environmentalism and indigeneity. It has criticised environmentalists for assuming that because they value x species, other populations automatically do too. But I’m conscious of attaching that to one statement, and I’m struggling to move from that to really grasping the rest of the passage.

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