Totemism

by Claude Lévi-Strauss and claude LEVI STRAUSS

Book Overview

"Levi-Strauss continues his assault on the myth of the primitice as savage by turning to the phenomena of totemism an totoemix classification ... to show, contrary to this myth, that primitive thought rests upon a rich and complex conceptual structure." - Commentary

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080704671X
• ISBN13: 9780807046715
• Release Date: June 1971
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

a classic, boring book

Don't read this book for pleasure. Only read it if you have to. It's useful if you have a good reason to read it.

An awakener from Anthropology

A classic of 20th Century intellectual creativity, that has been recognized as such, but that has not yet received the full attention it deserves. It has momentarelly be dispensed of as "old fashioned", when social sciences based on neuro-sciences has clearly not yet integrated the vast webb of implications the formulations of this volume generate.An absolute must, even - or because - many formulations are arguable. It is not a book that proposes conclusions, but awakens our intelligence.