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Structural Anthropology Zero Claude Levi-Strauss (College de France)

Structural Anthropology Zero By Claude Levi-Strauss (College de France)

Structural Anthropology Zero by Claude Levi-Strauss (College de France)


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Structural Anthropology Zero by Claude Levi-Strauss (College de France)

This volume of Levi-Strauss's writings from 1941 to 1947 bears witness to a period of his work which is often overlooked but which was the crucible for the structural anthropology that he would go on to develop in the years that followed.

Like many European Jewish intellectuals, Levi-Strauss had sought refuge in New York while the Nazis overran and occupied much of Europe. He had already been introduced to Jakobson and structural linguistics but he had not yet laid out an agenda for structuralism, which he would do in the 1950s and 60s. At the same time, these American years were the time when Levi-Strauss would learn of some of the world's most devastating historical catastrophes - the genocide of the indigenous American peoples and of European Jews. From the beginning of the 1950s, Levi-Strauss's anthropology tacitly bears the heavy weight of the memory and possibility of the Shoah. To speak of 'structural anthropology zero' is therefore to refer to the source of a way of thinking which turned our conception of the human on its head. But this prequel to Structural Anthropology also underlines the sense of a tabula rasa which animated its author at the end of the war as well as the project shared with others of a civilizational rebirth on novel grounds.

Published here in English for the first time, this volume of Levi-Strausss texts from the 1940s will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology, sociology and the social sciences generally.

Structural Anthropology Zero Reviews

This volume makes available the early writings of the great anthropologist and philosopher Claude Levi-Strauss, which together constitute a prehistory of structuralism. It sheds light on his American period, in exile during World War II, a time of great creativity during which he met and was strongly influenced by Roman Jakobson and was introduced to Northwest Coast art in short, a time of life that was a catalyst for who he would become in his later incarnation as an international intellectual celebrity.
Michael E. Harkin, University of Wyoming

About Claude Levi-Strauss (College de France)

Claude Levi-Strauss(1908-2009)was one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century. He held the Chair of Social Anthropology at the College de France from 1959 to 1982 and was the author of many books includingTristes TropiquesandStructural Anthropology.

Table of Contents

Note on the French Edition

List of Illustrations


Introduction by Vincent Debaene


History and method

I. French Sociology

II. In Memory of Malinowski

III. The Work of Edward Westermarck

IV. The Name of the Nambikuara


Individual and society

V. Five Book Reviews

VI. Techniques for Happiness


Reciprocity and hierarchy

VII. War and Trade among the Indians of South America

VIII. The Theory of Power in a Primitive Society

IX. Reciprocity and Hierarchy

X. The Foreign Policy of a Primitive Society


Art

XI. Indian Cosmetics

XII. The Art of the Northwest Coast at the American Museum of Natural History


South American ethnography

XIII. The Social Use of Kinship Terms among Brazilian Indians

XIV. On Dual Organization in South America

XV. The Tupi-Cawahib

XVI. The Nambicuara

XVII. Tribes of the Right Bank of the Guapore River


Map

Sources

Notes

Index

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NGR9781509544981
9781509544981
1509544984
Structural Anthropology Zero by Claude Levi-Strauss (College de France)
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2021-10-08
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