Structural anthropology
By: Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated from the French by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf. [Vol.1].
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1963
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
Work titles: Anthropologie structurale.
Description: Lévi-Strauss is not only one of the extremely few scholars of sufficient distinction to be able to say, without presumption, what social anthropology is about; but he has also actually demonstrated...that he is pre-eminently worth listening to. He does not simply practice social anthropology, he makes exciting and original contributions to it. This book provides an introduction to his distinctive approach to anthropology as the study of a science of general principles. The now renowned "structural method," which has changed the face of social anthropology, views man and society in terms of universals--kinship, social organization, religion and mythology, and art.
Notes: Translation from the French of "Anthropologie structurale", Paris, Plon, 1958.