Structural Anthropology

by Levi-Strauss, Claude

• ISBN13: 9780465095162
• ISBN10: 046509516X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1974-06-07
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

The "structural method," first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Levi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of individualskinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art.

Author Biography

Claude Lévi-Strauss is a member of the Académie Française and has occupied the chair of social anthropology at the Collège de France. He is the author of numerous books, including Structural Anthropology, The Raw and the Cooked, The Origin of Table Manners, and The View from Afar.

Table of Contents

Author's Prefaceto the French Edition	p. vii
Translator's Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xvi
Introduction History and Anthropology	p. 28
Language and Kinship	p. 29
Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology	p. 51
Language and the Analysis of Social Laws	p. 65
Linguistics and Anthropology	p. 80
Postscript to Chapters III and IV	p. 96
Social Organization	p. 99
The Concept of Archaism in Anthropology	p. 117
Social Structures of Central and Eastern Brazil	p. 131
Do Dual Organizations Exist?	p. 162
Magic and Religion	p. 165
The Sorcerer and His Magic	p. 185
The Effectiveness of Symbols	p. 204
The Structural Study of Myth	p. 230
Structure and Dialectics	p. 241
Art	p. 243
Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America	p. 266
The Serpent with Fish inside His Body	p. 273
Problems of Method and Teaching	p. 275
Social Structure	p. 316
Postscript to Chapter XV	p. 341
The Place of Anthropology in the Social Sciences and Prob­- lems Raised in Teaching It	p. 379
Acknowledgments	p. 382
Bibliography	p. 385
Index	p. 399
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