Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bricoleur

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Bricoleur
dic. def. for a word with no english equivalent--nixie 08:35, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Orphan poor dicdef attempt. -- Infrogmation 20:42, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment It actually could be an encyclopedic topic if anyone wants to work on it. It was evidently coined in the early 1960s from a common French word, bricolage, to describe a certain type of individual in society: "The bricoleur is adept at performing a large number of diverse tasks; but, unlike the engineer, he does not subordinate each of them to the availability of raw materials and tools conceived and procured for the purpose of the project. His universe of instruments is closed and the rules of his game are always to make do with "whatever is at hand", that is to say with a set of tools and materials which is always finite and is also heterogeneous, because what it contains bears no relation to the current project, or indeed to any particular project, but is the contingent result of all the occasions there have been to renew or enrich the stock or to maintain it with the remains of previous constructions of destructions." &mdash;Levi-Strauss, Claude. The Savage Mind. 1966 (Paperback edition; University of Chicago Press, 1968 ISBN 0226474844 ). DialUp 04:10, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to bricolage. -Sean Curtin 04:44, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per evidence provided by Dialup, or merge/ redirect to bricolage. Kappa 09:40, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Integrate DialUp's remarks into bricolage; Bricoleur should become a redirect to bricolage. -- Jmabel | Talk 23:59, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to bricolage (which also has a strong flavor of dictionary-definitions but is more likely to be expandable). Rossami (talk) 02:19, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to bricolage unless and until someone writes a real article here - David Gerard 10:15, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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