Structural Anthropology

by Claude Levi-Strauss

Overview

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 Lévi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of individuals—kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780465095162
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	06/07/1974
Series:	Structural Anthropology Series , #1
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	769,510
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1490L (what's this?)

About the Author

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 Preface
Translator's Preface
List of Figures
Part One - Perspective Views
I. The Scope of Anthropology
II. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Founder of the Sciences of Man
III. What Ethnology Owes to Durkheim
IV. The Work of the Bureau of American Ethnology and Its Lessons
V. Comparative Religions of Nonliterate Peoples
Part Two - Social Organization
VI. The Meaning and Use of the Notion of Model
VII. Reflections on the Atom of Kinship
Part Three - Mythology and Ritual
VIII. Structure and Form: Reflections on a Work by Vladimir Propp
IX. The Story of Asdiwal
X. Four Winnebago Myths
XI. The Sex of the Sun and Moon
XII. Mushrooms in Culture: Apropos of a Book by R. G. Wasson
XIII. Relations of Symmetry Between Rituals and Myths of Neighboring Peoples
XIV.  How Myths Die
Part Four - Humanism and the Humanities
XV. Answers to Some Investigations
XVI. Scientific Criteria in the Social and Human Disciplines
XVII. Cultural Discontinuity and Economic and Social Development
XVIII. Race and History
Bibliography
Index