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Claude Lévi-Strauss1908–2009

One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.

Claude Lévi-Strauss on thinking

Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 16: Markets, p. 148

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