Claude Lévi-Strauss

First published in 1955, Claude Levi-Strauss's accounts of his researches among the peoples of the Amazon is a fascinating study and influential in understanding the organization of human society. He writes of myths and superstitions, modern cities and ancient villages, and each page is packed with anecdotes and observations. Photos & illus. throughout.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Cracking the Code of Culture

Myth and Meaning

The meeting of myth and science - Primitive thinking and the civilizad mind - Harelips and twins : the splitting of a myth - When myth becomes history - Myth and music.

Enth.: Race et histoire / Claude Lévi-Strauss. suivi de: L'oeuvre de Claude Lévi-Strauss / par Jean Pouillon.

Race et histoire

Tristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Lévi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. His account of the people he encountered changed the field of anthropology, transforming Western notions of 'primitive' man. Tristes Tropiques is a major work of art as well as of scholarship. It is a memoir of exquisite beauty and a masterpiece of travel writing: funny, discursive, movingly detailing personal and cultural loss, and brilliantly connecting disparate fields of thought. Few books have had as powerful and broad an impact.

Tristes Tropiques

Mais que um livro de viagem, é um livro sobre a viagem. Além de trazer detalhes pitorescos das sociedades indígenas do Brasil central, o livro discute as relações entre o Velho e o Novo Mundo, e o significado da civilização e do progresso.

Tristes trópicos

Analyzes the myths concerning cooked food, the seasons, water, the stars, and other subjects in the culture of the Bororo Indians of Brazil

Mythologiques, Volume 1

The Raw and the Cooked

Totemism, [by] Claude Lévi-Strauss

Tristi tropici

Yaban düşünce

Didier Eribon

At the age of eighty, one of the most influential yet reclusive intellectuals of the twentieth century consented to his first interviews in nearly thirty years. Hailed by Le Figaro as "an event," the resulting conversations between Claude Lévi-Strauss and Didier Eribon (a correspondent for Le Nouvel Observateur) reveal the great anthropologist speaking of his life and work with ease and humor. Now available in English, the conversations are rich in Lévi-Strauss's candid appraisals of some of the best-known figures of the Parisian intelligentsia: surrealists André Breton and Max Ernst, with whom Lévi-Strauss shared a bohemian life in 1940s Manhattan; de Beauvoir, Sartre, and Camus, the stars of existentialism; Leiris, Foucault, Dumézil, Jacob, Lacan, and others. His long friendships with Jakobson and Merleau-Ponty are recalled, as well as his encounters with prominent figures in American anthropology: Lowie, Boas (who suddenly died in his chair beside Lévi-Strauss at a banquet at Columbia University), Benedict, Linton, Mead, and Kroeber. Lévi-Strauss speaks frankly about how circumstances and his own inclinations, after his early fieldwork in Brazil, led him to embrace theoretical work. His straightforward answers to Eribon's penetrating questions—What is a myth? What is structuralism? Are you a philosopher?—clarify his intellectual motives and the development of his research; his influential role as an administrator, including the founding of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology and of the journal L'Homme; the course of his writings, from Elementary Structures of Kinship to The Jealous Potter; and his thoughts on the conduct of anthropology today. Never before has Lévi-Strauss spoken so freely on so many aspects of his life: his initial failure to be elected to the Collège de France; his reaction to the events of May 1968; his regrets at not being a great investigative reporter or playwright; his deep identification with Wagner, Proust, and Rousseau. This is a rare opportunity to become acquainted with a great thinker in all his dimensions.

Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss

Totemism

Uma cidade em que o gado convivia com carros e bondes nas ruas; em que construções moderníssimas despontavam no topo de colinas ainda rústicas; em que lençóis caseiros, pendurados nos varais, formavam o primeiro plano para o imponente prédio Martinelli.Essa a paisagem que Claude Lévi-Strauss, então um jovem professor e fotógrafo nas horas vagas, encontrou e registrou fascinado entre 1935 e 1937, quando veio trabalhar na Universidade de São Paulo. Sessenta anos mais tarde, ciente de que uma cidade é "como um texto que, para compreender, é preciso saber ler e analisar", o antropólogo escreveu um depoimento memorável em que revisita essas imagens. Construindo para as novas gerações o mapa de uma belíssima viagem, no espaço e no tempo.

Saudades de São Paulo

Somos todos canibais

Smutek tropików

Nestas cinco conferências, Claude Lévi-Strauss, insigne antropólogo, interpreta alguns mitos e tenta descobrir o seu significado para a compreensão da natureza humana. Abordando temas que possibilitam analisar as relações entre Mitologia e Ciência, Mitologia e História, Mitologia e Música, este livro, combinando o conhecimento histórico, antropológico e filosófico, proporciona uma nítida e penetrante perspectiva do mundo ocidental contemporâneo.

Mito e Significado

The distinguished anthropologist discusses the role and importance of honey and tobacco in the culture of the South American Indians

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