Claude Levi-Strauss

by Edmund Leach

Book Overview

In this lucide guide to the often abstruse works of Claude L vi-Strauss, Edmund Leach synthesizes the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest anthropologists and provides a thoughtful... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670225150
• ISBN13: 9780670225156
• Release Date: October 1974
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Difficult

Perhaps it is because the ideas themselves are so difficult but I found this work very hard to understand. Leach uses much technical terminology and perhaps this helps those within the world of ethnology but I found myself double and triple- reading passages. Still to read about 'Triste Tropique', the supreme spiritual and intellectual adventure of Levi- Strauss is proof of Pliny's dictum, that there is 'no book that does not give something of value.'