Structural anthropology / Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated from the French by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf
1968, Second Edition. London : Allen Lane. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #430464
Physical description; xvi, 410 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes; Bibliogr.: v. 1, p. 385-398. Contents; Introduction : History and anthropology -- Part I. Language and kinship : Structural analysis in linguistics and in anthropology -- Language and the analysis of social laws -- LInguistics and anthropology -- Postscript to [preceding chapters] -- Part II. Social organization : The concept of archaism in anthropology -- Social structures of central and eastern Brazil -- Do dual organizations exist? -- Part III. Magic and religion : The sorcerer and his magic -- The effectiveness of symbols -- The structural study of myth -- Structure and dialectics -- Part IV. Art : Split representation in the art of Asia and America -- The serpent with fish inside his body -- Part V. Problems of method and teaching : Social structure -- Postscript to [preceding chapter] -- The place of anthropology in the social sciences and problems raised in teaching it. Subjects; Structural anthropology. Social Sciences -- Anthropology -- Linguistic anthropology. Social Sciences -- Anthropology -- Cultural anthropology. Anthropology. Ethnology. Structuralism. Structural anthropology.
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