Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Schocken Books
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780805210385ISBN:0805210385
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. As new. No marks of any kind. Not remaindered. Shiny and clean. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 80 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: New. 'There is no easier or quicker way than through this book into that heart of darkness Levi-Strauss calls 'totalitarian ambition of the savage mind' as it throbs beneath the surface of the 'civilized' mind. '--Philip Rieff, Professor of Psychiatry, Med... read more
"Fascinating reading. CL-S says there was once a tribe that could see the planet Venus in broad daylight, simply because they paid attention to nature and ignored their cell phones. (Pg 18... my paraphrase)"
"About as good as French structuralism gets, I guess. It's a really good and simple read if you're interested in how language organizes us and societies. It's about, quite literally, how culture is *shared*."
"Levi Strauss (only distantly related to the jeans) is a stuctural anthropologist, who here clearly explains how he looks for order behind disorder, and how he doesn't think we can find meaning without order.
I read some of his work in Wendy Graham's Lit Theory class, but I'll level with you, about 95% of that went over my head until now.
One of his more interesting chapters goes over how he doesn't believe in a binary between "primitive" and "civilized" - he thinks the distinction is more accurately thought of in terms of "with writing" and "without writing". I like."
"Overview of Levi-Strauss' ideas regarding structuralism. The text was originally a lecture in English so the ideas are quite accessible as opposed to much of his writing in French. Lots of great information and tons of examples to illustrate structuralist thought."
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