Levi Strauss

Myths are without an author, because “from the moment when they are perceived as myths, and despite their real origin, they exist only as they are incarnated in a tradition” (Lévi-Strauss & McMahon 1966: 64). It is as if out of nowhere comes certain meanings to individuals when myths are recounted, as so myths are reorganized and projected onto virtual or supernatural origins. The conditions to musical creation, on the other hand…

Thank you for sharing your personal experience and the meaningful ideas. It is true that it is difficult to decide the ethical conduct or not in the practical situation for leaders. For example, Levi Strauss & Co. uses child labor in Bangladesh, where is legally to use child labor (Annoymity, 2016), however, there are many people advocating to cease the child labor because these children need to receive the education. If the leader of the company ceases to use the child labor, it may deteriorate…

Information systems (IS) and organization influence one another. One of the main priority of an organization is to implement strategic IS that will ensure their products and services more effective and efficient so as to maximize profits (Bose, 2012). Levi Strauss as fashion retail the pivotal competitive advantage is the speed to market, as the result of short fashion cycle and icons are less predictable. Consequently, to improve the whole value chain, the use of technology to coordinate and…

having agency of their own. With their own truths and views of the world that are shaped by many intersectional factors that have been discussed in previous sections of this essay. The final section of this essay will look to provide a critique of Levi-Strauss and the binary approach of structuralism and the role that has played in ignoring the important work that women…

Emp Ethics refers to recognized philosophies of right or wrong that motivate the behavior and or actions of a person or organization. Ethics can be seen as ideological thinking about morality, moral problems, and moral judgements. (Kidus G.Mehalu, 2011) Ethics can also be defined as a study of what is good or right for human beings, what goals people “ought” to pursue, and what actions they “should” perform. (Kidus G.Mehalu, 2011) People are guided by their sense of morals based on a…

been underrepresented due to the common opinion that women’s roles within a society are not as important to the dynamic of the population. In some cases when women have been included in ethnographies it has only been through the voices of the men. In Levi-Strauss’s alliance theory, the women feature as mere voiceless exchangeable objects. This conclusion came about through lack of interaction with female members of the community. To counteract this inequality several anthropologists mirrored the…

Visiting Sha’ ar Zahav was definitely like visiting a synagogue like no other. The first thing that you notice right through the door is that someone has been posted to specifically greet everyone who comes in and explain what type of synagogue they are. Out of all the synagogues, I felt the most welcomed in by Sha’ ar Zahav. Everything from how they pray to the way the torah is covered has something to say about their ideology. It is clear that they don’t follow Halakhah nearly as strictly as…

taking into account theories about ‘counter-intuitive agents’ appearing in most religions (e.g. Boyer 2001; Atran 2002; Pyysiäinen 2003; Barrett 2004) (Chapter 1). As she notes, theories about symbols suggested by modern anthropologists (e.g. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Victor Turner and Clifford Geertz) and largely used by classicists, mainly focus on the functionality of symbolism in cultural contexts and avoid explaining why and how seemingly irrational religious statements are widely accepted by…

“The Postmodernist Turn” by J. David Hoeveler Jr. was written about the 1970s during what is called the postindustrial period. Throughout the 1970s the United States became the world’s foremost postindustrial civilization. There were new conditions that changed the way Americans operated, and even their insights of reality. Chapter 1 of “The Postmodernist Turn” is about postindustrailism after the second industrial revolution, the second chapter of “The Postmodernist Turn” is called wars of…

What is a business strategy? It is about a long term planning of the business to achieve organization’s goal (Business Case Study LLP 2014). To become a successful organization, they need to follow the rules and regulation that fixed by the government as well as develop some good strategies towards achievement. One of the strategy is by using IS or IT in developing the government. Nowadays, the uses of IT/IS quite common among the business organization. Means that, the organization must know…