Anthropology and myth : lectures, 1951-1982 /
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| Author / Creator: | Lévi-Strauss, Claude |
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| Uniform title: | Paroles données. English |
| Imprint: | Oxford, [Oxfordshire] : New York, NY, USA : Blackwell, 1987. |
| Description: | vi, 232 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English French |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/800105 |
| Summary: | 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.<br> <br> The pieces in Anthropology and Myth illustrate (in his own words) ′the efforts, the tentative advances and retreats and now and again the achievements of a thought process during some thirty-two years that amount to a large propotion of an individual life and the span of a generation′. Levi-Strauss used to the lecture theatre as a workshop in which to try out and develop new ideas, and many of the familiar themes of his books will be found here: analysis of myth and ritual, totemism, kinship, marriage and social structure. Offering a unique glimpse of the genesis of such subjects throughout his teaching career, this book provides a sketchbook of the themes painted elsewhere in larger, more finished form, and thus forms a document of vital importance for the history of anthropological thought. |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 232 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0631144749 |
