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The view from afar

Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, ©1985.
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Lévi-Strauss, Claude.
View from afar.
New York : Basic Books, c1985
(OCoLC)567882918
Online version:
Lévi-Strauss, Claude.
View from afar.
New York : Basic Books, c1985
(OCoLC)630904596
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Claude Lévi-Strauss
ISBN: 0465090257 : 9780465090259
OCLC Number: 11229062
Notes: Translation of: Le regard éloigné.
Description: xvi, 311 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. The innate and the acquired: Race and culture --
The anthropologist and the human condition --
pt. 2. Family, marriage, kinship: The family --
An Australian "atom of kinship" --
Cross-readings --
On marriage between close kin --
The environment and its representation: Structuralism and ecology --
Structuralism and empiricism --
The lessons of linguistics --
Religion, language, and history: concerning an unpublished text by Ferdinand de Saussure --
From mythical possibility to social existence --
pt. 4. Beliefs, myths, and rites: Cosmopolitanism and schizophrenia --
Myth and forgetfulness --
Pythagoras in America --
An anatomical foreshadowing of twinship --
A small mythico-literary puzzle --
From Chrétien de Troyes to Richard Wagner --
A note on the tetralogy --
pt. 5. Constraint and freedom: A meditative painter --
To a young painter --
New York in 1941 --
A belated word about the creative child --
Reflections on liberty.
Other Titles: Regard éloigné.
Responsibility: Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated by Joachim Neugroschel and Phoebe Hoss.

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