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June 19, 2003

Claude Levi-Strauss on the true task of exploration

“Exploration is not so much a covering of surface distance as a study in depth: a fleeting episode, a fragment of landscape or a remark overhead may provide the only means of understanding and interpreting areas which would otherwise remain barren of meaning.”
–Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (1955)

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