Structural Anthropology (1963)

Lévi-Strauss is not only one of the extremely few scholars of sufficient distinction to be able to say, without presumption, what social anthropology is about; but he has also actually demonstrated...that he is pre-eminently worth listening to. He does not simply practice social anthropology, he makes exciting and original contributions to it. This book provides an introduction to his 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, social organization, religion and mythology, and art. Volume 1. 1. Introduction. History And Anthropology -- Part 1. Language And Kinship -- 2. Structural Analysis In Linguistics And In Anthropology -- 3. Language And The Analysis Of Social Laws -- 4. Linguistics And Anthropology -- 5. Postscript To Chapters Iii And Iv -- Part 2. Social Organization -- 6. The Concept Of Archaism In Anthropology -- 7. Social Structures Of Central And Eastern Brazil -- 8. Do Dual Organizations Exist? -- Part 3. Magic And Religion -- 9. The Sorcerer And His Myth -- 10. The Effectiveness Of Symbols -- 11. The Structural Study Of Myth -- 12. Structure And Dialectics -- Part 4. Art -- 13. Split Representation In The Art Of Asia And America -- 14. The Serpent With Fish Inside His Body -- Part 5. Problems Of Method And Teaching -- 15. Social Structure -- 16. Postscript To Chapter Xv -- 17. The Place Of Anthropology In The Social Sciences And Problems Raised In Teaching It -- Volume 2. Part 1. Perspective Views -- 1. The Scope Of Anthropology -- 2. Jean-jacques Rousseau, Founder Of The Sciences Of Man -- 3. What Ethnology Owes To Durkheim -- 4. The Work Of The Bureau Of American Ethnology And Its Lessons -- 5. Comparative Religions Of Nonliterate Peoples -- Part 2. Social Organization -- 6. The Meaning And Use Of The Notion Of Model -- 7. Reflections On The Atom Of Kinship -- Part 3. Mythology And Ritual -- 8. Structure And Form: Reflections On A Work By Vladimir Propp -- 9. The Story Of Asdiwal -- 10. Four Winnebago Myths -- 11. The Sex Of The Sun And Moon -- 12. Mushrooms In Culture: Apropos Of A Book By R.g. Wasson -- 13. Relations Of Symmetry Between Rituals And Myths Of Neighboring Peoples -- 14. How Myths Die -- Part 4. Humanism And The Humanities -- 15. Answers To Some Investigations -- 16. Scientific Criteria In The Social And Human Disciplines -- 17. Cultural Discontinuity And Economic And Social Development -- 18. Race And History. Claude Lévi-strauss; Translated From The French By Claire Jacobson And Brooke Grundfest Schoepf. Vol. 2 Translated By M. Layton. Bibliography: V. 1, P. 385-398; V. 2, P. 363-372. Lévi-Strauss is not only one of the extremely few scholars of sufficient distinction to be able to say, without presumption, what social anthropology is about; but he has also actually demonstrated ... that he is pre-eminently worth listening to. He does not simply practice social anthropology, he makes exciting and original contributions to it. This book provides an introduction to his 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, social organization, religion and mythology, and art The structural method, first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lvi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of individuals kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art. -- From product's description The "structural method," first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of universals--kinship, social organization, religion and mythology, and art The “structural method,” first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of individuals—kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art. The structural method," first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Levi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of individuals,kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art. MORE THAN A HALF-CENTURY has elapsed since Hauser and Simiand formulated and contrasted the principles and methods which seemed to them to distinguish history from sociology.