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Anthropology and Myth: Lectures 1951 - 1982

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Description for Anthropology and Myth: Lectures 1951 - 1982 Hardback. The published work of Claude Levi--Strauss over the last three and a half decades has established him as one of the worlda s most innovative anthropologists. Yet throughout this period he was maintaining a full taching commitment in Paris. Translator(s): Willis, R. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 548.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Anthropology and Myth

Lectures 1951 – 1982

Translated by Roy Willis

The published work of Claude Lévi-Strauss over the last three and a half decades has established him as one of the word’s most innovative anthropologists. Yet throughout this period he was maintaining a full teaching commitment in Paris.

The pieces in Anthropology and Myth illustrate (in his own word) ‘the effort, 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 proportion of an individual life and the span of a generation’. Lévi-Strauss used the lecture theatre as ... Read more

Contents

Translator’s Note

Preface

  1. The Field of Research
  2. Mythologics
  3. Inquiries into Mythology and Ritual
  4. Current Controversies and Social Organization and Kinship
  5. Clan, Lineage, House

Appendix: Nine Course Reports

Chronological Table

Index

Jacket illustrations: (Front) The Jungle, 1943, by Wifredo Lam, gouache on paper mounted on canvas. 7’10 1/4” x 7’6 1/2” (239.4 x 229.9 cm). Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Inter-American Fund. © DACS 1986 – Photograph © 1986, The Museum of Modern Art, New York is reproduced by kind permission. (Back) Photograph reproduced by kind permission of the Collège de France and Librairie Plon.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631144748
SKU
V9780631144748
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss, who retired recently from his chair at the Collège de France, is a member of the Académie FranÇaise. Among his most important books are The Elementary Structures of Kinship, The Savage Mind and The Raw and the Cooked. Roy Willis teaches anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

Reviews for Anthropology and Myth: Lectures 1951 - 1982
"For those who interest themselves in the mechanics of intellectual labour, this book illustrated the efforts, the tentative advances and retreats, and now and again the achievements, of a thought process unfolding during some thirty-two years that amount to a large propotion of an individual life and the span of a generation." —Claude Levi-Strauss

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