Claude Levi-Strauss: The Anthropologist as Hero

Bys: Hayes, E. Nelson and Tanya Hayes, Eds

Book Overview

The popularity of Levi-Strauss, in the words of the editors of this collection of current essays and reviews, resides "in his seeming rejection of history and humanism, in his refusal to see Western civilization as privileged and unique, in his view of the human mind as programmed, in his emphasis on form over content, and in his insistence that the savage mind is not inferior to the civilized." This collection includes articles on Levi-Strauss' works...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262080389
• ISBN13: 9780262080385
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.0"