Introducing Levi-Strauss

A Graphic Guide

von Boris Wiseman, Judy Groves

176 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Graphic Guides
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Philosophie Philosophische Traditionen und Denkschulen Nach 1800 Strukturalismus und Post-Strukturalismus
• ISBN: 9781848316935
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.06.2014
• Größe: 167 x 116 mm
• Verlag: Icon Books