Structural Anthropology
by Claude Levi-StraussFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2008-08-05
Publisher(s): Hachette
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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"
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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