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Structural anthropology

Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher: [New York] : Basic Books ©1963
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Claude Lévi-Strauss
ISBN: 046509516X 9780465095162 0465082297 9780465082292
OCLC Number: 24149862
Description: xx, 410 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents: Introduction : History and anthropology --
Part I. Language and kinship : Structural analysis in linguistics and in anthropology --
Language and the analysis of social laws --
LInguistics and anthropology --
Postscript to [preceding chapters] --
Part II. Social organization : The concept of archaism in anthropology --
Social structures of central and eastern Brazil --
Do dual organizations exist? --
Part III. Magic and religion : The sorcerer and his magic --
The effectiveness of symbols --
The structural study of myth --
Structure and dialectics --
Part IV. Art : Split representation in the art of Asia and America --
The serpent with fish inside his body --
Part V. Problems of method and teaching : Social structure --
Postscript to [preceding chapter] --
The place of anthropology in the social sciences and problems raised in teaching it.
Other Titles: Anthropologie structurale.
Responsibility: Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated from the French by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf.
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