
Introducing Levi-Strauss: A Graphic Guide - Graphic Guides (Paperback)
Boris Wiseman (author), Judy Groves (author)Published: 05/06/2014
Introducing Levi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of Levi-Strauss' thought, from his early work on the function of the incest taboo to initiate an exchange of women between groups, to his identification of a timeless "wild" or "primitive" mode of thinking - a pensee sauvage - behind the processes of human culture.
Accessibly written by Boris Wiseman and beautifully illustrated by Judy Groves, Introducing Levi-Strauss also explores the major contribution that Levi-Strauss made to contemporary aesthetic history - his work on American-Indian mythology provides a key insight into the way in which art itself comes into being.
This is an essential introduction to a key thinker.
Publisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 9781848316935
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 120 g
Dimensions: 168 x 120 x 10 mm
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