Beschreibung:
Claude Levi-Strauss and the style of thinking known as 'structuralism' with which his work is conventionally associated is widely recognized as having made a seminal contribution to the discipline of anthropology. This book presents an overview of Levi-Strauss' life and work, and the thinkers and theories that informed his writings.
PrefaceIntroductionChapter one: Levi-Strauss, linguistics and structuralismChapter two: kinship as communicationChapter three: the illusion of totemismChapter four: myths without meaning?Chapter five: structuralism, shamanism and material cultureChapter six: the structure of nostalgiaChapter seven: Levi-Strauss and the study of religions