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Claude Levi-Strauss
In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century’s most prominent thinkers, Claude Levi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of…
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During his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found ‘human society reduced to its most basic…
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Structural Anthropology (1958) not only transformed the discipline of anthropology, it also energized a movement called structuralism that came to dominate the humanities and social sciences for a generation. Linguistic…
This collection touches on a wide range of anthropological issues, including family and marriage, myths, and rites, the environment and its representation, and constraint and freedom. The essays encompass more…
Levi-Strauss continues his assault on the myth of the primitice as savage by turning to the phenomena of totemism an totoemix classification … to show, contrary to this myth, that…
Edmund Leach
In this lucide guide to the often abstruse works of Claude Levi-Strauss, Edmund Leach synthesizes the thought of one of the twentieth century’s greatest anthropologists and provides a thoughtful introduction…
David Pace
An introduction to Levi-Strauss and his work, which places the world-view of this French writer in the context of 20th-century intellectuals’ struggles to come to grips with cultural relativism and…
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A. Jenkins
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Christopher Johnson (University of Nottingham)
A analysis of and introduction to Claude Levi-Strauss.
An analysis of and introduction to Claude Levi-Strauss.
Perhaps the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Levi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought, equal to that of phenomenology and existentialism. Through a fertile…
Structural Anthropology (1958) not only transformed the discipline of anthropology, it also energized a movement called structuralism that came to dominate the humanities and social sciences for a generation.
The structural method, first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lvi-Strausss understanding of man…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
The structural method, first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Levi-Strauss’s understanding of man…
The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume [of Mythologiques], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time… . Myths from North and…
In Les Structures Elementaires de la Parente , the early opus magnum of French Structuralism, Levi-Strauss tries to explain the systems of kinship and marriage in their enormous diversity and…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Maurice Godelier
One of the world’s leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology
Levi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom … a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments… . [The Raw and the…
Manfred Hainzl
Die Anthropologie von Claude Levi-Strauss wird letztlich nur verstehbar, wenn man ihre Konzeption vor einem semiotischen und philosophischen Hintergrund betrachtet. In diesem Buch untersucht der Autor Herkunft und Verwendung der…
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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,7, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main (Institut fur Ethnologie), Veranstaltung: Einfurhung in die Religionsethnologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In…
The Origin of Table Manners is the third volume of a tetralogy devoted to American Indian mythology. Unlike the first two volumes (The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to…
Robert Doran
One of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Claude Levi-Strauss casts a long shadow over many areas of inquiry, from ethnology and cultural anthropology to literary studies, Marxist…
This text is a collection of illustrations of masks from the Northwest Coast.
This analysis of the mythology of American Indians considers the many variations in a specific story that occur in both North and South America, but especially along the Northwest Coast…
In this wide-ranging work, Claude Levi-Strauss examines the mythology of American Indians and seeks to illustrate how contact with Europeans have altered these tales.
In this volume Levi-Strauss explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels are interwoven with discussions of Freud, Saussure…
Miriam Glucksmann
The primary concern of this book is to investigate whether or not structuralism constitutes a distinctive framework in the social sciences. The author focuses on two major structuralist thinkers, Louis…
