Claude Levi-Strauss. The formative years
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Levi-Strauss is one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. His theory of structuralism has been influential not only in anthropology, but across the entire field of the humanities and social sciences. This book looks at the forma...
Read more- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521016674
- ISBN10 0521016673
- Type BOOK
- Pages 208
- Published 2003
- Language English
- Bookbinding Rustic
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Anthropology. General ThemesClaude Levi-Strauss. The formative years
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Levi-Strauss is one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. His theory of structuralism has been influential not only in anthropology, but across the entire field of the humanities and social sciences. This book looks at the forma...
Mainland Spain
Book details
Levi-Strauss is one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. His theory of structuralism has been influential not only in anthropology, but across the entire field of the humanities and social sciences. This book looks at the formative period of his career, from the 1940s to the early 1960s, where he attempts to define both his own place in anthropology and the place of anthropology in the wider context of the human sciences in France. Through a close reading of key texts, Christopher Johnson provides an introduction to important aspects of Levi-Strauss's thought, at the same time posing more general questions concerning the construction of theory and the different modes of conceptualization that inform theory. Johnson looks at the ideological and autobiographical dimensions of Levi-Strauss's work, and demonstrates how the impact of structuralism as an intellectual movement has clearly been greater than the sum of its parts.