2010, ISBN: 9781594202735

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Plon ['Nouveau tirage: 1963']. Soft Cover. 454 p., index, 23 text illus., 13 plates; 20.5 cm. First published 1958. Contents include Langage et Parenté … Mehr…

Plon ['Nouveau tirage: 1963']. Soft Cover. 454 p., index, 23 text illus., 13 plates; 20.5 cm. First published 1958. Contents include Langage et Parenté (L'analyse structurale en linguistique et en anthropologie; Organisation Sociale (La notion d'archaïsme en ethnologie; Les structures sociales dans le Brésil central et oriental; Magie et Religion (Le sorcier et sa magie, L'efficacité symbolique, La structure des mythes, Structure et dialectique); Art (Le dédoublement de la représentation dans les arts de l'Asie et de l'Amérique; Le serpent au corps rempli de poissons); Problèmes de Méthode et d'Enseignement. Copy of Albert Cook (poet, critic, translator) with his ink signature. Stock#22025. Vg, minor wear / soft cover., Plon ['Nouveau tirage: 1963'], 0, New York: Penguin, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 104x24x152. First edition. Jacket spine base lightly rubbed, rear jacket panel lightly soiled. 2010 Hard Cover. 404 pp. The definitive account of the life, work, and legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss, father of modern anthropology and one of the postwar era's most influential thinkers. When Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away last October at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but also one of the defining intellectuals of the twentieth century. Just as Freud had shaken up the antiquarian discipline of psychiatry, so had Lévi-Strauss revolutionized anthropology, transforming it from the colonial era study of "exotic" tribes to one consumed with fundamental questions about the nature of humanity and civilization itself. Remarkably, there has never been a biography in English of the enigmatic Claude Lévi-Strauss. Drawing on a welter of original research and interviews with the anthropologist, Patrick Wilcken's Claude Lévi-Strauss fills this void. In rich detail, Wilcken re-creates Lévi-Strauss's peripatetic life: his groundbreaking fieldwork in some of the remotest reaches of the Amazon in the 1930s; his years as a Jew in Nazi- occupied France and as an émigré in wartime New York; and his return to Paris in the late 1940s, where he clashed with Jean-Paul Sartre and fundamentally influenced fellow postwar thinkers from Jacques Lacan to Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. It was in France that structuralism, the school of thought he founded, first took hold, creating waves far beyond the field of anthropology. In his heyday, Lévi-Strauss was both a hero to contemporary intellectuals and an international celebrity. In Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wilcken gives the reader a fascinating intellectual tour of the anthropologist's landmark works: Tristes Tropiques, a literary meditation on his travels and fieldwork; The Savage Mind, which showed that "primitive" people are driven by the same intellectual curiosities as their Western counterparts; and finally his monumental four-volume Mythologiques, a study of the universal structures of native mythology in the Americas. In the years that Lévi-Strauss published these pioneering works, Wilcken observes, tribal societies seemed to hold the answers to the most profound questions about the human mind. Following the great anthropologist from São Paulo to the Brazilian interior, and from New York to Paris, Patrick Wilcken's Claude Lévi- Strauss is both an evocative journey and an intellectual biography of one of the twentieth-century's most influential minds., Penguin, 2010, 3.5<

2010, ISBN: 9781594202735

New York: Penguin, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 104x24x152. First edition. Jacket spine base lightly rubbed, rear jacket panel lightly soiled. 2010 Hard Cover. … Mehr…

New York: Penguin, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 104x24x152. First edition. Jacket spine base lightly rubbed, rear jacket panel lightly soiled. 2010 Hard Cover. 404 pp. The definitive account of the life, work, and legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss, father of modern anthropology and one of the postwar era's most influential thinkers. When Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away last October at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but also one of the defining intellectuals of the twentieth century. Just as Freud had shaken up the antiquarian discipline of psychiatry, so had Lévi-Strauss revolutionized anthropology, transforming it from the colonial era study of "exotic" tribes to one consumed with fundamental questions about the nature of humanity and civilization itself. Remarkably, there has never been a biography in English of the enigmatic Claude Lévi-Strauss. Drawing on a welter of original research and interviews with the anthropologist, Patrick Wilcken's Claude Lévi-Strauss fills this void. In rich detail, Wilcken re-creates Lévi-Strauss's peripatetic life: his groundbreaking fieldwork in some of the remotest reaches of the Amazon in the 1930s; his years as a Jew in Nazi- occupied France and as an émigré in wartime New York; and his return to Paris in the late 1940s, where he clashed with Jean-Paul Sartre and fundamentally influenced fellow postwar thinkers from Jacques Lacan to Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. It was in France that structuralism, the school of thought he founded, first took hold, creating waves far beyond the field of anthropology. In his heyday, Lévi-Strauss was both a hero to contemporary intellectuals and an international celebrity. In Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wilcken gives the reader a fascinating intellectual tour of the anthropologist's landmark works: Tristes Tropiques, a literary meditation on his travels and fieldwork; The Savage Mind, which showed that "primitive" people are driven by the same intellectual curiosities as their Western counterparts; and finally his monumental four-volume Mythologiques, a study of the universal structures of native mythology in the Americas. In the years that Lévi-Strauss published these pioneering works, Wilcken observes, tribal societies seemed to hold the answers to the most profound questions about the human mind. Following the great anthropologist from São Paulo to the Brazilian interior, and from New York to Paris, Patrick Wilcken's Claude Lévi- Strauss is both an evocative journey and an intellectual biography of one of the twentieth-century's most influential minds., Penguin, 2010, 3.5<

ISBN: 9781594202735

Penguin Press. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex libr… Mehr…

Penguin Press. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Penguin Press, 2.5<

2010, ISBN: 9781594202735

Hard cover, The author of Empire Adrift offers an account of the life work and legacy of the father of modern anthropology and one the postwar era's most influential thinkers., Gebraucht,… Mehr…

Hard cover, The author of Empire Adrift offers an account of the life work and legacy of the father of modern anthropology and one the postwar era's most influential thinkers., Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Penguin Press HC]<

2010, ISBN: 9781594202735

Penguin Press, 2010-10-07. Hardcover. Good. 1.7000 9.2000 6.2000. Minor stains outside, doesn't affect inside. Has noticeable wear. Some pages are bent. Dust jacket has some staining / … Mehr…

Penguin Press, 2010-10-07. Hardcover. Good. 1.7000 9.2000 6.2000. Minor stains outside, doesn't affect inside. Has noticeable wear. Some pages are bent. Dust jacket has some staining / soiling.\r\n\r\n, Penguin Press, 2010-10-07, 2.5<