Levi-Strauss for Beginners

By Boris Wiseman

Book Overview

Introducing L vi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude L vi-Strauss (1908-2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of L vi-Strauss' thought,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840461470
• ISBN13: 9781840461473
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Totem Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Pitthy, Entertaining Introduction to a Complicated Subject

Reading this was a hoot. It makes structural anthropology fun and understantable in lay terms, notwithstanding the dilution and simplification of key concepts that invariably results from this sort of watering-down treatment.I'm not sure what the previous reviewer meant about L-S's "deconstruction" of myths--although Derrida is mentioned briefly in the book. However, the L-S method of interpreting the transposition and mutation of myths is briefly introduced.

Like a Cliff's Notes for Levi-Strauss

A fun adventure through the complex world of Levi-Strauss and his theory of Structuralism. It contains cartoons, pictures, and fun comments which bring Levi-Strauss' complex theory to a sort of clarity.Although I still don't find any practical use for a theory that is based upon the Western concept of binary opposites and deconstruction of mythology and fiction to explain culture, I am at least better able to understand the theory.