Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World
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Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World by Claude Levistrauss
This first English translation of lectures Claude Levi-Strauss delivered in Tokyo in 1986 synthesizes his ideas about structural anthropology, critiques his earlier writings on civilization, and assesses the dilemmas of cultural and moral relativism, including economic inequality, religious fundamentalism, and genetic and reproductive engineering.
Lévi-Strauss was certainly not the only French intellectual to develop a fascination for JapanIndeed, Japan’s sculptured landscapes, highly stylized rituals and philosophies of self-denial struck a particular chord with his structuralist contemporaries, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault. But the impressions gathered here are distinctively his, and indeed sometimes read as if they were lifted straight from the Mythologiques… There is much to admire [here]… Still fizzing with ideas as he approached eighty, Claude Lévi-Strauss never relented on his increasingly lonely structuralist quest. His fascination for Japanese traditions, similar to his lifelong obsession with ethnography in general, stemmed in part from his feeling of alienation from modernity. -- Patrick Wilcken * Times Literary Supplement *
This new translation provides an accessible gloss on the unique special contributions of a dynamic thinker who forever altered the course of anthropology. * Publishers Weekly *
This new translation provides an accessible gloss on the unique special contributions of a dynamic thinker who forever altered the course of anthropology. * Publishers Weekly *
Claude Lévi-Strauss was chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France (1959–1982). Maurice Olender is Maître de Conférences at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674072909 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674072901 |
| Title | Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World |
| Author | Claude Lévi-Strauss |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2013-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Prizes | Nominated for FAF Translation Prize 2014 |
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