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 and society in terms of individualskinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art.
As Lévi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification," and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. Lévi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers ...
One of the worlds most celebrated anthropologists focuses on our aesthetic sensibilities and explores how timeless works of art exert their hold on the human psyche. Drawing from the visual, musical, and literary arts, Lvi-Strauss shows how these works touch our essential humanity in a way that transcends nationality, converging cultural ...
In the mid-1930s, the renowned anthropologist Levi-Strauss ventured into the Brazilian interior to document the cultural habits of isolated tribal groups. Also included are some images of Sao Paulo in the thirties when it was still a frontier city.
These 18 essays are arranged in four major sections, giving a bird's-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology. "Perspective Views" contains essays on the origins, scope, and future of social anthropology. "Social Organization" presents two important essays on kinship. The third and longest section, "Mythology and Ritual". includes such ...
In the final volume of his "Mythologiques" series, Lévi-Strauss uses the structural method he developed to show the transformations of mythological stories taken from native North American cultures and decodes these transformations in terms of their core social and anthropological values.
"Tristes Tropiques" records Lévi-Strauss's search for "a human society reduced to its most basic expression", and focuses on the tribes of the Caduvco, Bororo, Nambikwara, and Tupi-Kawahib of the Amazon basin and the upland jungles of Brazil. Lévi-Strauss draws fascinating comparisons and parallels among the tribes and human societies at large, ...
"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 Cooked"] adds yet another chapter to the tireless quest for a scientifically accurate, esthetically viable, and philosophically relevant cultural ...
Levi-Strauss's most accessible examination of the rich mythology of Native America centers on a myth of the Nez Perce about the relationship of Coyote and Wild Cat, and its many variations in both North and South America. The meaning and use of twinness is central to the analysis, and the concept of dual organization exemplified in the tales is ...
In the final volume of his "Mythologiques" series, Lévi-Strauss uses the structural method he developed to show the transformations of mythological stories taken from native North American cultures and decodes these transformations in terms of their core social and anthropological values.
This volume represents a concise distillation of Lévi-Strauss's methods, ideas, and conclusions from his distinguished career as a leading social anthropologist. The chapters and text are compiled from a series of radio interviews that Lévi-Strauss gave in English in 1977.
The published work of Claude Levi-Strauss over the last three and a half decades has established him as one of the world's most innovative anthropologists. Yet throughout this period he was maintaining a full taching commitment in Paris. The pieces in Anthropology and Myth illustrate (in his own words) 'the efforts, the tentative advances and ...
Claude Levis-Strauss approaches Mauss by combining anthropology and structural linguistics to assess his achievements and intentions arguing that Mauss - who at the time represented the mainstream of French anthropology - was in fact structuralist mangue. He then goes on to formulate the central tenets of structuralist thought: the belief in ...
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