A milestone in the study of culture from the father of structural anthropology. This watershed work records Claude Levi-Strauss's search for "a human society reduced to its most basic expression." From the Amazon basin through the dense upland jungles of Brazil, Levi-Strauss found the societies he w[...]

When Claude Levi-Strauss passed away in 2009 at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but one of the defining intellectuals of the 20th century. Just as Freud had shaken up the antiquarian discipline of psychiatry, so had Levi-Strauss revoluti[...]

"In olden days, in a village peopled by animal creatures, lived Wild Cat (another name for Lynx). He was old and mangy, and he was constantly scratching himself with his cane. From time to time, a young girl who lived in the same cabin would grab the cane, also to scratch herself. In vain Wild Cat k[...]

"Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No "precis" is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."--Edmund Carpenter, "New York Times Book Review "
"No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting intellectual exercise in which dialectic, wit, and [...]

The eighteen essays collected in this volume have been selected and ordered to give what Levi-Strauss terms "a bird's-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology." As representative examples, these essays introduce readers to the methods of structural anthropology while affording a glimpse into the[...]

""The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume [of "Mythologiques], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time. . . . Myths from North and South America are set side by side to show their transformations: in passing from person to person and place [...]

The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. His work has had a profound impact not only within anthropology but also linguistics, sociology and philosophy. In this short book he examines the nature and role of myth in human history, distilli[...]

Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World is the first English translation of a series of lectures Claude Levi-Strauss delivered in Tokyo in 1986. Written with an eye toward the future as his own distinguished career was drawing to a close, this volume presents a synthesis of the autho[...]

Claude Lévi-Strauss är en av världens ledande socialantropologer och en av grundarna av strukturalismen inom antropologien. I sin bok Totemismen påvisar författaren att begreppet totemism använts för att beteckna de mest olikartade trosföreställningar. Han behandlar teorier om totemismen ho[...]

Ranskan akatemian jäsen Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) on 1900-luvun eurooppalaisen ajattelun kiistattomia peruspylväitä. Alunperin vuonna 1955 ilmestyneessä teoksessaan Tropiikin kasvot hän kutsuu lukijansa matkalle 1900-luvun alkupuolen Amazoniaan, jossa hän nuorena tiedemiehenä etsi inhi[...]