Recherches de mythologie américaine (1),' Annuaire de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études (Sciences religieuses), ... 1956 *The family,'in Harry L.Shapiro, ed., Man, Culture, and Society, London and New York, Oxford University Press, pp.
This book, first published in 1983,provides a fascinating insight into his character through a careful reading of the more speculative passages of his books and interviews.
With respect to his predecessors, Lévi-Strauss's work would indicate, as Jean-Pierre Vernant emphasized," at once a continuity, a break and a new start. The continuity with Mauss and Durkheim can be seen in The Savage Mind.
A superbly thrilling life' Guardian Claude Lévi-Strauss, the 'father of modern anthropology' and author of the classic Tristes tropiques, was one of the most influential intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century.
In the years that Lévi-Strauss published these pioneering works, Wilcken observes, tribal societies seemed to hold the answers to the most profound questions about the human mind.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, the 'father of modern anthropology' and author of the classic Tristes tropiques, was one of the most influential intellectuals of the second half of the twentieth century.
In this lucide guide to the often abstruse works of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edmund Leach synthesizes the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest anthropologists and provides a thoughtful introduction to the theory and practice of ...
The culmination of decades of engagement with Lvi-Strauss's work, this book will prove indispensible to students of his thought and structural anthropology more generally.
One of the world’s leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology As a young man, Maurice Godelier was Claude Lévi-Strauss’s assistant.
This book looks at the formative period of his career, from the 1940s to the early 1960s, where he attempts to define both his own place in anthropology and the place of anthropology in the wider context of the human sciences in France.
Claude Lévi-Strauss