Introducing Levi-Strauss: A Graphic Guide

✍ Scribed by Boris Wiseman, Judy Groves

Publisher: Icon Books
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 180
Series: Graphic Guides
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Introducing Lévi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of Lévi-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 pensée sauvage – behind the processes of human culture.

Accessibly written by Boris Wiseman and beautifully illustrated by Judy Groves, Introducing Lévi-Strauss also explores the major contribution that Lévi-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.

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