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Wild Thought
Perhaps the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Levi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought, equal to that of …
Myth and Meaning
In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial …
Tristes Tropiques
'One of the great books of our century . . . It speaks with a human voice' Susan SontagTristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his …
Structural Anthropology
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 …
The Naked Man: Mythologiques, Volume 4
"The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume of Mythologiques], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time. . . . Myths from …
We Are All Cannibals
On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous …
Myth and Meaning
The Way of the Masks
Claude Levi-Strauss’s fascination with Northwest Coast Indian art dates back to the late 1930s. “Sometime before the outbreak of the Second World War,” he writes, “I had already …
Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World
Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World is the first English translation of a series of lectures Claude Lévi-Strauss delivered in Tokyo in 1986. Written with an eye …
The Elementary Structures of Kinship
Professor L vi-Strauss's first major work, Les Structures l mentaires de la Parent , has acquired a classic reputation since its original publication in 1949; and it has become …
The Origin of Table Manners: Mythologiques, Volume 3
"The Origin of Table Manners is the third volume of a tetralogy devoted to American Indian mythology. Unlike the first two volumes (The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes), …