Accord Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss

“The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.” quote by Claude Levi-Strauss — Download Open image

“The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.”

Claude Levi-Strauss

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