The savage mind
Subtitle: (La pensée sauvage)
By: [by] Claude Lévi-Strauss; [translated from the French]
Series: The Nature of human society series
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 1966
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Ethnophilosophy
Description: The author demonstrates how each culture has its own system of the concepts and categories derived from experience and imposed by the surrounding natural world. Through the order in the naming of plants and animals, concepts of space and time, myths and rituals, primitive societies engage in a high level of abstract reasoning different from but not necessarily inferior to that involved in cultivated "systematic thought."
Notes: Bibliography: p. 271-282.