Anthropology and Myth: Lectures 1951 - 1982
Claude Levi-Strauss
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
- The Field of Research
- Mythologics
- Inquiries into Mythology and Ritual
- Current Controversies and Social Organization and Kinship
- 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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