The View from Afar

The View from Afar
ISBN-10
0226474747
ISBN-13
9780226474748
Category
Social Science
Pages
332
Language
English
Published
1992-12
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Claude Lévi-Strauss

Description

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 than forty years of analysis and constrain arguments that are as relevant today as they were thirty years ago. "Hardly a field remains untouched—sociobiology, linguistics, botany, genetics, psychiatry, esthetics, ecology, politics, neuroscience, education, morality, psychology. . . . It's all breathtaking and alarming, some of it wonderful, some of it ridiculous. . . . At times the experience is exhilarating."—Richard A. Shweder, New York Times Book Review

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