Abstract
French anthropologists are heirs of Claude Levi-Strauss, in the sense that he has defined a set of concepts, methods, paradigms they accept, transform or criticize. We can identify three epistemological trends in contemporary French anthropology, all of whom have a connection with the work of Levi-Strauss. The first trend is inspired by structuralism, in its intention to describe universals. The second one takes the opposite position, as its main object is the interpenetration of cultures and societies. The third is experiential: how can we describe our subjective relation to otherness? These three trends find their origin in the famous distinction between anthropology, ethnology and ethnography, coined originally by Levi-Strauss.
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