Wild thought : a new translation of "La pensée sauvage" / Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated by Jeffrey Mehlman and John Leavitt ; with annotations by John Leavitt.

"Through a fertile mixture of insights gleaned from linguistics and from sociology and ethnology, Lévi-Strauss elaborated his theory of structural unity in culture and became the preeminent representative of structural anthropology. La Pensée sauvage, published in French in 1962, was his crow...

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Main Author: Lévi-Strauss, Claude (Author)
Other Authors: Mehlman, Jeffrey (Translator), Leavitt, John Harold, 1952- (Translator)
Other title:Pensée sauvage. English
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The science of the concrete
  • The logic of totemic classifications
  • Systems of transformations
  • Totem and caste
  • Categories, elements, species, numbers
  • Universalization and particularization
  • The individual as species
  • Time regained
  • History and dialectic
  • Appendix : On the wild pansy.