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Introducing Levi-strauss : A Graphic Guide
Paperback Edition: 2014
Introducing Levi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of Levis-Strauss' thought, from his early work on the function of the incest taboo to initiate an exchange of
women between groups, to his identification of a timeless "wild" or "primitive" mode of thinking - a pensee sauvage - behind the processes of human culture. Accessibly written by Boris Wiseman and beautifully illustrated by Judy Groves, Introducing Levi-Strauss also explores the major contribution that Levi-Strauss made to contemporary aesthetic history - his work on American-Indian mythology provides a key insight into the way in which art itself comes into being. This is an essential introduction to a key thinker.
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Pages : 176
Publisher : Icon Books
Publication date : 2014-06
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Social Sciences, Philosophy, Sociology, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Anthropology