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In this lucide guide to the often abstruse works of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edmund Leach synthesizes the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest anthropologists and provides a thoughtful introduction to the theory and practice of structuralism. Leach organizes his work not by chronology but by theme, exploring three important topics in Lévi-Strauss's human beings and their symbols, the structure of myth, and kinship theory. Written concisely and with great care and penetration, this brief book is both a fine introduction for the uninitiated reader of Lévi-Strauss and a critical analysis that will prove valuable to those more familiar with the anthropologist's work.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edmund Leach
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- Released
- 1989
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- Title
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Edmund Leach
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Released
- 1989
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 153
- ISBN10
- 0226469689
- ISBN13
- 9780226469683
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Philosophy, USA, France, Biographies, British Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Description
- In this lucide guide to the often abstruse works of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Edmund Leach synthesizes the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest anthropologists and provides a thoughtful introduction to the theory and practice of structuralism. Leach organizes his work not by chronology but by theme, exploring three important topics in Lévi-Strauss's human beings and their symbols, the structure of myth, and kinship theory. Written concisely and with great care and penetration, this brief book is both a fine introduction for the uninitiated reader of Lévi-Strauss and a critical analysis that will prove valuable to those more familiar with the anthropologist's work.