The Savage Mind by Claude Levi-Strauss
Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No precis is possible. This extraordinary book must be read. Edmund Carpenter, New York Times Book ReviewNo outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting intellectual exercise in which dialectic, wit, and imagination combine to stimulate and provoke at every page. Edmund Leach, Man
Levi-Strauss's books are tough: very scholarly, very dense, very rapid in argument. But once you have mastered him, human history can never be the same, nor indeed can one's view of contemporary society. And his latest book, The Savage Mind, is his most comprehensive and certainly his most profound. Everyone interested in the history of ideas must read it; everyone interested in human institutions should read it. J. H. Plumb, Saturday Review
A constantly stimulating, informative and suggestive intellectual challenge. Geoffrey Gorer, The Observer, London
Lévi-Strauss, Claude: - Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) is the most important anthropologist of the twentieth century, a leader in structuralist thought, and one of the key figures in the history of modern thought. He held the chair of social anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982 and was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973. His many influential works include Tristes Tropiques, Structural Anthropology, Totemism, and Wild Thought, among others. The Press has published many English editions of his works.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780297995234 |
| ISBN 10 | 0297995235 |
| Title | The Savage Mind |
| Author | Claude Levi-Strauss |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1994-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 302 |
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