The 100th birthday of Claude-Levi Strauss in the Museum of Ethnography

On the 17th of December from 5 pm

The Other - Ancient myths, fatal delusions, cultural diversity, the featured exhibition of the European Year for Intercultural Dialogue, opened on the 26th of September.

The exhibition, following the original idea of the Museum of Ethnography of Geneva is based on Claude Lévi-Strauss’s famous 1952 work, Race and History. Lévi-Strauss’s aim was to deconstruct racial and ethnic prejudices and question the ideology of racism. Despite the time that has passed since its publication, his ideas are still relevant and have a special resonance with the key issues that modern societies are facing at the moment.

Claude Lévi-Strauss is celebrating his 100th birthday this year. In honour of the spiritual father of the exhibition, the Museum of Ethnography and the Artemisszió Foundation have organized a series of special programs.

On the 17th of December the Museum of Ethnography (Budapest, Kossuth Lajos tér 12.) will open its doors to those interested in Lévi-Strauss’s ideas and teaching. On this day, from 3 pm The Other exhibition can be visited free of charge. From 5 pm a roundtable of important contemporary intellectuals will be discussing the impact of Lévi-Strauss on Hungarian intellectual and academic life.

Participants of the roundtable discussion: Zoltán Fejős, Anna Losonczy, Veronika Görög Karády, János Kelemen.
Moderator: Balázs Lévai

The birthday celebration will be completed by the screening of the 1991 film About Tristes Tropiques on Lévi-Strauss’s work. A special guest will be one of the directors of the film, Patrick MENGET. The discussion between the audience and the director will be moderated by Ildikó Kristóf. The event if FREE!

More information: Tánya Rónai
E-mail: ronai@neprajz.hu
Tel: (36 1) 473 24 41