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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Structural anthropology. New York : Basic Books, c1963 (OCoLC)656845797 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Claude Lévi-Strauss; Claire Jacobson; Brooke Grundfest Schoepf |
| ISBN: | 0465082297 9780465082292 0465082300 9780465082308 |
| OCLC Number: | 24602265 |
| Description: | xvi., 410 p.: illus., charts, plan; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Author's Preface -- Translator's Preface -- I. Introduction: History and Anthropology -- PART ONE: LANGUAGE AND KINSHIP. II. Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology -- III. Language and the Analysis of Social Laws -- IV. Linguistics and Anthropology -- V. Postscript to Chapters III and IV -- PART TWO: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION. VI. The Concept of Archaism in Anthropology -- VII. Social Structures of Central and Eastern Brazil -- VIII. Do Dual Organizations Exist? -- PART THREE: MAGIC AND RELIGION. IX. The Sorcerer and His Magic -- X. The Effectiveness of Symbols -- XI. The Structural Study of Myth -- XII. Structure and Dialectics -- PART FOUR: ART. XIII. Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America -- XIV. The Serpent with Fish inside His Body -- PART FIVE: PROBLEMS OF METHOD AND TEACHING. XV. Social Structure -- XVI. Postscript to Chapter XV -- XVII. The Place of Anthropology in the Social Sciences and Problems Raised in Teaching It. |
| Series Title: | Harper torchbooks. |
| Responsibility: | Claude Lévi-Strauss; translated from the French by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf. |
Abstract:
Lévi-Strauss is not only one of the extremely few scholars of sufficient distinction to be able to say, without presumption, what social anthropology is about; but he has also actually demonstrated...that he is pre-eminently worth listening to. He does not simply practice social anthropology, he makes exciting and original contributions to it. This book provides an introduction to his distinctive approach to anthropology as the study of a science of general principles. The now renowned "structural method," which has changed the face of social anthropology, views man and society in terms of universals--kinship, social organization, religion and mythology, and art.
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