Claude Lévi-Strauss: an introduction.
Subtitle: Translated from the Spanish by J.S. Bernstein and Maxine Bernstein.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Notes: "Some major works of Claude Lévi-Strauss": p. 153-154. Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: Chapter I. A geological metaphor -- Verbal union and sexual union : values, signs, women -- Chapter II. Symbols, metaphors, and equations -- Position and meaning -- Asia, America, and Europe -- Three transparencies : the rainbow, poison, and the weasel -- The spirit : something which is nothing -- Chapter III. Dissonant intermezzo -- Defense of Cinderella and other digressions -- A verbal triangle : myth, epic, and poem -- Chapter IV. Qualities and concepts : pairs and couples, elephants and tigers -- The straight line and the circle -- The pangs of progress -- Ingestion, conversion, expulsion -- The end of the Golden Age, and the beginning of writing -- Chapter V. Practices and symbols -- Yes or no, and the more or less. Man’s unconscious and the machines’ -- Signs which destroy each other : transfigurations -- Taxila.