Description
Product ID: | 9781848316935 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Graphic Guides |
Title: | Introducing Levi-Strauss |
Subtitle: | A Graphic Guide |
Authors: | Author: Boris Wiseman, Judy Groves |
Page Count: | 176 |
Subjects: | Structuralism and Post-structuralism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Anthropology, Anthropology |
Description: | Select Guide Rating An Introducing Graphic Guide to the father of modern anthropology. Introducing Lévi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of Lévi-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 pensée sauvage - behind the processes of human culture. Accessibly written by Boris Wiseman and beautifully illustrated by Judy Groves, Introducing Lévi-Strauss also explores the major contribution that Lévi-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. |
Imprint Name: | Icon Books |
Publisher Name: | Icon Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2014-06-05 |