Claude-Levi Strauss

The Raw and the Cooked (Book)

Claude-Levi Strauss

ISBN:9780712660495

This book examines the myths of the South American Indians and demonstrates how these can be reduced to a comprehensible psychological pattern. Moving from minute detail to bold speculation...more details
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Anthropology and Myth: Lectures, 1951-1982 (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss

ISBN:9780631144748

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...more details
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Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Paula Eribon DidierWissing

ISBN:9780226474755

At the age of eighty, one of the most influential yet reclusive intellectuals of the twentieth century consented to his first interviews in nearly thirty years. Hailed by "Le Figaro" as "an event...more details
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Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss (Book)

Levi-Strauss;Claude Levi-Strauss

ISBN:9780415151580

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...more details
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Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Wendy Doniger

ISBN:9780805210385

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Saudades Do Brasil: A Photographic Memoir (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Sylvia Modelski

ISBN:9780295975665

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Structural Anthropology, Volume 2 (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Monique Layton

ISBN:9780226474915

The eighteen essays collected in this volume have been selected and ordered to give what Levi-Strauss terms "a bird's-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology." As representative examples...more details
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Structural Anthropology (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss

ISBN:9780465095162

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 Levi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of individuals--kinship...more details
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The Elementary Structures of Kinship (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;James H Needham RodneyBell

ISBN:9780807046692

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The Jealous Potter (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Benedicte Chorier

ISBN:9780226474823

As Levi-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...more details
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The Jealous Potter (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Benedicte Chorier

ISBN:9780226474809

As Levi-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...more details
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The Naked Man: Mythologiques, Volume 4 (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Doreen Weightman JohnWeightman

ISBN:9780226474960

""The Naked Man "is the fourth and final volume of "Mythologiques"], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time. . . . Myths from North and South America are set side by side to show their transformations: in passing from person to person and place to place...more details
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The Origin of Table Manners: Mythologiques, Volume 3 (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Doreen Weightman JohnWeightman

ISBN:9780226474939

""The Origin of Table Manners" is the third volume of a tetralogy devoted to American Indian mythology. Unlike the first two volumes ("The Raw and the Cooked...more details
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The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1 (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Doreen Weightman JohnWeightman

ISBN:9780226474878

"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...more details
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The Savage Mind (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Doreen Weightman JohnWeightman

ISBN:9780226474847

"Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No "precis" is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."--Edmund Carpenter, "New York Times Book Review"
"No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting intellectual exercise in which dialectic...more details
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The Story of Lynx (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Catherine Tihanyi

ISBN:9780226474724

"In olden days, in a village peopled by animal creatures, lived Wild Cat (another name for Lynx). He was old and mangy, and he was constantly scratching himself with his cane. From time to time...more details
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The Story of Lynx (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Catherine Tihanyi

ISBN:9780226474717

"In olden days, in a village peopled by animal creatures, lived Wild Cat (another name for Lynx). He was old and mangy, and he was constantly scratching himself with his cane. From time to time...more details
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The View from Afar (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Phoebe Neugroschel JoachimHoss

ISBN:9780226474748

This collection touches on a wide range of anthropological issues, including family and marriage, myths, and rites, the environment and its representation...more details
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Totemism (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Rodney Needham

ISBN:9780807046715

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Tristes Tropiques (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Doreen Weightman JohnWeightman

ISBN:9780140165623

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Tristes Tropiques (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss

ISBN:9780143106258

First published in 1955, Claude Levi-Strauss's accounts of his researches among the peoples of the Amazon is a fascinating study and influential in understanding the organization of human society. He writes of myths and superstitions...more details
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Tristes Tropiques (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss

ISBN:9780141197548

'One of the great books of our century . . . It speaks with a human voice' Susan Sontag

Tristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers'...more details
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Way of the Masks (Book)

Claude Levi-Strauss;Sylvia Modelski

ISBN:9780295966366

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