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ISBN: PB: 9780226474915

University of Chicago Press

February 1983

500 pp.

23x15 cm

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Structural Anthropology, Volume 2

The eighteen essays collected in this volume have been selected and ordered to give what Levi-Strauss terms "a bird's-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology". As representative examples, these essays introduce readers to the methods of structural anthropology while affording a glimpse into the mind of one of the foremost anthropologists of our time.


Contens

Author's Preface
Translator's Preface
List of Figures

Part One: Perspective Views
I. The Scope of Anthropology
II. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Founder of the Sciences of Man
III. What Ethnology Owes to Durkheim
IV. The Work of the Bureau of American Ethnology and Its Lessons
V. Comparative Religions of Nonliterate Peoples

Part Two: Social Organization
VI. The Meaning and Use of the Notion of Model
VII. Reflections on the Atom of Kinship

Part Three: Mythology and Ritual
VIII. Structure and Form: Reflections on a Work by Vladimir Propp
IX. The Story of Asdiwal
X. Four Winnebago Myths
XI. The Sex of the Sun and Moon
XII. Mushrooms in Culture: Apropos of a Book by R. G. Wasson
XIII. Relations of Symmetry Between Rituals and Myths of Neighboring Peoples
XIV. How Myths Die

Part Four: Humanism and the Humanities
XV. Answers to Some Investigations
XVI. Scientific Criteria in the Social and Human Disciplines
XVII. Cultural Discontinuity and Economic and Social Development
XVIII. Race and History

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology". His works include the four volumes of "Mythogiques", "The Savage Mind", "Structural Anthropology II", "The Jealous Potter", and (with Didier Eribon) "Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss", all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews

"'Structural Anthropology, Volume II' is a diverse collection. [It is] a useful 'sampler' that gives a reader the full range of Levi-Strauss's interests" – Daniel Bell, New York Times Book Review