Автор: Levi-Strauss, Claude. Название: The elementary structures of kinship. ISBN: 0807046698 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807046692 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 5931.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: Professor Levi-Strauss's first major work, Les Structures elementaires de la Parente, has acquired a classic reputation since its original publication in 1949; and it has become the constant focus of academic debate about central theoretical concerns in social anthropology. It is, however, a long and difficult book for many students to read in French, and its arguments have consequently become known, even among professional anthropologists, largely through critical analysis. It was republished in a revised French edition in 1967 with a new foreword by the author, and it is this text with his further emendations that has been used in this translation. Levi-Strauss applies his intellectual powers to the perennial problem of incest, which he elucidates by means of the concept of exchange as formulated by Marcel Mauss in his famous analysis of the gift (Essai sur le don, 1925). He distinguishes two elementary modes of exchange which govern not only the conventional variety of goods and services but also the transfer of women in marriage: these are "restricted" and "generalized" exchange. With a mass of ethnographic evidence he demonstrates how the formidable intricacy of marriage customs, comprising moral and jural ideas and institutions (which appear to be essentially arbitrary), can be seen as local and historical rules of exchange. Charles Levi-Strauss traces these rules throughout a vast range of simple societies, chiefly in Australia and mainland Southeast Asia but also in the Americas, in Oceania, and in other parts of the world. To this survey he adds two extended sections on the great civilizations of China and India. He continues with a briefer consideration of the passage from elementary to complex structures, with particular reference to African societies, and concludes with a stimulating chapter on the principles of kinship, exchange as the universal basis for marriage prohibitions, and the formal relations between the sexes as part of a universe of communication. Although much of the work is technical, consisting of detailed analyses of types of social organization with which social anthropologists will be most familiar, it also contains much that will be of interest to psychologists, linguists, and philosophers, and to all who are interested in the possibility and the technique of the structural analysis of human activity. After the successes, moreover, of Levi-Strauss's subsequent books--notably Structural Anthropology, Tristes Tropiques, Totemism, and The Savage Mind--this new edition of the work which founded his present outstanding reputation will have additional value as a further means of contact with one of the original minds of this century. The translation has been made by James Harle Bell and John Richard von Sturmer, of the University of New England, Australia, and by Rodney Needham, of the University of Oxford. Dr. Needham also acted as general editor and supplied the work with a new general index. He is the translator of Levi-Strauss's Le Totemisme aujourd'hui and author of Structure and Sentiment (1962) and numerous papers which have contributed to the recognition of Professor Levi-Strauss's work in the English-speaking world.
Автор: Levi Strauss Claude Название: Other Face of the Moon ISBN: 0674072928 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674072923 Издательство: Harvard University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 5694.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Gathering all of Claude Levi-Strauss`s writings on Japan, this sustained meditation follows his dictum that to understand one`s own culture, one must see it from another`s point of view. For Levi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. This English translation presents one of France`s most public figures at his most personal.
Автор: Levi-Strauss Claude Название: From Montaigne to Montaigne ISBN: 1517906385 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517906382 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2000.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist’s intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne In January 1937, between the two ethnographic trips he would describe in Tristes Tropiques, Claude L?vi-Strauss gave a talk to the Conf?d?ration g?n?rale du travail in Paris. Only recently discovered in the archives of the Biblioth?que national de France, this lecture, “Ethnography: The Revolutionary Science,” discussed the French essayist Michel de Montaigne, to whom L?vi-Strauss would return in remarks delivered more than a half-century later, in the spring of 1992. Bracketing the career of one of the most celebrated anthropologists of the twentieth century, these two talks reveal how L?vi-Strauss’s ethnography begins and ends with Montaigne-and how his reading of his intellectual forebear and his understanding of anthropology evolve along the way.Published here for the first time, these lectures offer new insight into the development of ethnography and the thinking of one of its most important practitioners. Essays by Emmanuel D?sveaux, who edited the original French volume De Montaigne ? Montaigne, and Peter Skafish expand the context of L?vi-Strauss’s talks with contemporary perspectives and commentary.
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