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Lévi-Strauss, anthropology and aesthetics
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Lévi-Strauss, anthropology and aesthetics

Author: Boris Wiseman
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Series: Ideas in context, 85.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A wide-ranging 2007 study of Claude Levi-Strauss's aesthetic thought.

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Named Person: Claude Lévi-Strauss; Claude Lévi-Strauss; Claude Levi-Strauss; Claude Lévi-Strauss; Claude Lévi-Strauss
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Boris Wiseman
ISBN: 9780521875295 0521875293
OCLC Number: 154682279
Description: xi, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: ethno-aesthetics --
1. The reconciliation --
2. Art and the logic of sensible qualities --
3. The work of art as a system of signs --
4. Structuralism, symbolist poetics and abstract art --
5. The anthropologist as art critic --
6. Nature, culture, chance --
7. From myth to music --
8. Lévi-Strauss's mytho-poem --
Conclusion: between concept and metaphor.
Series Title: Ideas in context, 85.
Responsibility: Boris Wiseman.
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Review of the hardback: 'It is evident that there is great expertise in these pages, and even for the non-anthropologist, much material whose interest it would be hard to deny.' Modern Language Read more...

 
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