Structural anthropology / Translated from the French by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf.
This book provides an introduction to Lévi-Strauss' distinctive approach to anthropology as the study of a science of general principles. The now renowned "structural method," which has changed the face of social anthropology, views man and society in terms of universals--kinship, so...
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| Other title: | Anthropologie structurale. English. |
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New York :
Basic Books,
[©1963-76]
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Table of Contents:
- Author's preface
- Translator's preface
- I. Introduction: History and anthropology
- PART ONE: LANGUAGE AND KINSHIP. II. Structural analysis in linguistics and in anthropology
- III. Language and the analysis of social laws
- IV. Linguistics and anthropology
- V. Postscript to Chapters III and IV
- PART TWO: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION. VI. The Concept of archaism in anthropology
- VII. Social structures of Central and Eastern Brazil
- VIII. Do dual organizations exist?
- PART THREE: MAGIC AND RELIGION. IX. The sorcerer and his magic
- X. The effectiveness of symbols
- XI. The structural study of myth
- XII. Structure and dialectics
- PART FOUR: ART. XIII. Split representation in the art of Asia and America
- XIV. The serpent with fish inside his body
- PART FIVE: PROBLEMS OF METHOD AND TEACHING. XV. Social structure
- XVI. Postscript to Chapter XV
- XVII. The place of anthropology in the social sciences and problems raised in teaching it.