Introducing Levi-Strauss: a Graphic Guide

✍ Scribed by Groves, Judy;Wiseman, Boris

• Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Series: Introducing
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; A Meeting with Lévi-Strauss; Pioneers of Anthropology: Malinowski; Mauss and the Rule of Reciprocity; Cross-Cousin Marriages; Exogamous and Endogamous Marriages; What is the "Elementary Unit"?; The Saussurian Model; Kinship is Communication; The Incest Taboo; The Rule of Incest; Totemism; The Rise and Fall of Totemism; Totemism and Hysteria; Excluding and Classifying; How is "Totemism" Explained?; The Totemic Operator; Species and Systems; The Nature of Thinking; The Instinct for Knowledge; Anthropology is a Psychology; Classification or Taxonomy;An Introducing Graphic Guide to the father of modern anthropology.

✦ Table of Contents

Intro
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
A Meeting with Lévi-Strauss
Pioneers of Anthropology: Malinowski
Mauss and the Rule of Reciprocity
Cross-Cousin Marriages
Exogamous and Endogamous Marriages
What is the "Elementary Unit"?
The Saussurian Model
Kinship is Communication
The Incest Taboo
The Rule of Incest
Totemism
The Rise and Fall of Totemism
Totemism and Hysteria
Excluding and Classifying
How is "Totemism" Explained?
The Totemic Operator
Species and Systems
The Nature of Thinking
The Instinct for Knowledge
Anthropology is a Psychology
Classification or Taxonomy Some Properties of Classificatory SystemsWhat is Thinking?
The Logic of the Concrete
Thinking by Analogies
How Concrete Logic Functions
How Primitive Science Works
Bricolage
Working with Signs
Lévi-Strauss and the Prague Connection
Hot and Cold Societies
Writing and Social Hierarchies
A Writing Lesson
How Cold Societies Resist Change
Games, Rituals and Classifications
History as Linear Time: Hot Societies
Time as a Circle: Cold Societies
Lévi-Straussian Aesthetics
Signs Versus Mimesis
Primitivism in Western Art
Modernist Art
The Relation of Art to Language
The Art of Masks A System of LinksThe Meaning of Masks
Masks and Cosmetics
The Functions of Masks
Symbols and Scale Models
Reduced to Art
Seeing the Whole Before the Parts
The Analogous Object
The Hidden Structure of Things
Myths of the American Indians
What is Myth?
A Sample Myth
Guidelines to a Study of Myths
The Bororo Myth (M1)
The Position of the Jaguar
The Hidden Armatures
Binary Oppositions
From Nature to Culture
Myths and Paradoxes
Do Myths Have Meaning?
The Oedipus Myth
The Interpretation
The Percival Legend
The Interpretation
Myth and Music
Structuralism and the Body Further ReadingAcknowledgements
About the Author
Index

✦ Subjects

Anthropologists;Anthropologists--France;Electronic books;Biographies;Anthropologists -- France -- Biography;France