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 structuralism. Leach organizes his work not by chronology but by theme, exploring three important topics in Lévi-Strauss's work: human beings and their symbols, the structure of myth, and kinship theory. Written concisely and with great care and penetration, this brief book is both a fine introduction for the uninitiated reader of Lévi-Strauss and a critical analysis that will prove valuable to those more familiar with the anthropologist's work.
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Edmund Leach (1910-1989) was professor of social anthropology at Cambridge University and the author of numerous books, including Rethinking Anthropology and Culture and Communication.
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Perhaps it is because the ideas themselves are so difficult but I found this work very hard to understand. Leach uses much technical terminology and perhaps this helps those within the world of ethnology but I found myself double and triple- reading passages. Still to read about 'Triste Tropique', the supreme spiritual and intellectual adventure of Levi- Strauss is proof of Pliny's dictum, that there is 'no book that does not give something of value.'
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Claude Levi-Strauss, Professor of Social Anthropology at the College de France, is, by common consent, the most distinguished exponent of this particular academic trade to be found anywhere outside the English-speaking world, but scholars who call themselves social anthropologists are of two kinds. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Tristes Tropiques, New York, The Savage Mind, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, Australian Aborigines, Les Structures, South American Indians, The Man Himself, The Story of Asdiwal, United States New!
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Claude Levi-Strauss, Professor of Social Anthropology at the College de France, is, by common consent, the most distinguished exponent of this particular academic trade to be found anywhere outside the English-speaking world, but scholars who call themselves social anthropologists are of two kinds. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
culinary triangle, unilineal descent, primitive thought Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tristes Tropiques, New York, The Savage Mind, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, Australian Aborigines, Les Structures, South American Indians, The Man Himself, The Story of Asdiwal, United States New!
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- Fundamentals of Language (Janua Linguarum. Series Minor) by Roman Jakobson on page 25, page 48, and Back Matter
- Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss on page 5, page 21, and Back Matter
- Structure and Function in Primitive Society: Essays and Addresses by A. R. Radcliffe-Brown on page 109, page 113, and Back Matter
- Primitive Society by Robert H Lowie in Front Matter, page 113, and Back Matter
- On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition (Dover Books on Biology) by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson on page 53, and Back Matter
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- Knowledge as Culture: The New Sociology of Knowledge by E. Doyle McCarthy on page 113, and page 122
- Film/Genre by Rick Altman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Crisis and Catharsis: The Power of the Apocalypse by Adela Yarbro Collins on page 162
- Communication in Everyday Life: A Social Interpretation by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz on page 108
- An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict by Daniel Bertand Monk in Back Matter
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