You might also like

More about Introducing Levi-Strauss

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 24 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Introducing Levi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of Levi-Strauss' thought, from his early work on the function of the incest taboo to initiate an exchange of women between groups, to his identification of a timeless "wild" or "primitive" mode of thinking - a pensee sauvage - behind the processes of human culture. Accessibly written by Boris Wiseman and beautifully illustrated by Judy Groves, Introducing Levi-Strauss also explores the major contribution that Levi-Strauss made to contemporary aesthetic history - his work on American-Indian mythology provides a key insight into the way in which art itself comes into being. This is an essential introduction to a key thinker.

Book details

Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Introducing Levi-Strauss
• Author: Boris Wiseman, Judy Groves
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9781848316935
• ISBN: 1848316933
• ID: 02233520
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Weight: 160 g
• Dimensions: 178 × 147 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. June 2014

Trending among others

---

---

---