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E. one that is not dependent on prior subject–object and nature–culture dualisms: it involves dividuating the environment rather than dichotomizing it and turning attention to ‘we-ness’, which absorbs differences, rather than to ‘otherness’, which highlights differences and eclipses commonalities. Against ‘I think, therefore I am’ stand ‘I relate, therefore I am’ and ‘I know as I relate’. Against materialistic framing of the environment as discrete things stands relationally framing the environment as nested relatednesses.

What we hear are sounds that fill the space around us whereas what we see are things abstracted or ‘cut out’ from the space before us, that the body responds to sound like a resonant cavity and to light like a reflecting screen, that the auditory world is dynamic and the visual world static, that to hear is to participate whereas to see is to observe at a distance, that hearing is social whereas vision is asocial or individual, that hearing is morally virtuous whereas vision is intrinsically untrustworthy, and finally that hearing is sympathetic whereas vision is indifferent or even treacherous.

The major difference is that while for Lévy-Bruhl mythic thought was considered to be participatory because it was an emotional and pre-logical response, for Lévi-Strauss it was a particular kind of concrete logic not based on the conceptual abstraction characteristic of modernity: ‘the exceptional feature of this mind which we call savage and which Comte described as spontaneous relates principally to the extensive nature of the ends it assigns itself. : 219). As Shore has more recently pointed out, what Lévi-Strauss identifies here as ‘synthesis’ is that which Lévy-Bruhl earlier characterized as a participatory relation between persons and the world (Shore 1996: 31).

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