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Overview
The eighteen essays collected in this volume have been selected and ordered to give what Lévi-Strauss terms "a bird's-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology." As representative examples, these essays introduce readers to the methods of structural anthropology while affording a glimpse into the mind of one of the foremost anthropologists of our time.
"Structural Anthropology, Volume II is a diverse collection. [It is] a useful 'sampler' that gives a reader the full range of Lévi-Strauss's interests."—Daniel Bell, New York Times Book Review
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Claude Lévi-Strauss is a member of the Académie Française and has occupied the chair of social anthropology at the Collège de France. He is the author of numerous books, including Structural Anthropology, The Raw and the Cooked, The Origin of Table Manners, and The View from Afar.
Table of Contents
Author's Preface Translator's Preface List of Figures
Part One - Perspective Views
I. The Scope of Anthropology II. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Founder of the Sciences of Man III. What Ethnology Owes to Durkheim IV. The Work of the Bureau of American Ethnology and Its Lessons V. Comparative Religions of Nonliterate Peoples
Part Two - Social Organization
VI. The Meaning and Use of the Notion of Model VII. Reflections on the Atom of Kinship
Part Three - Mythology and Ritual
VIII. Structure and Form: Reflections on a Work by Vladimir Propp IX. The Story of Asdiwal X. Four Winnebago Myths XI. The Sex of the Sun and Moon XII. Mushrooms in Culture: Apropos of a Book by R. G. Wasson XIII. Relations of Symmetry Between Rituals and Myths of Neighboring Peoples XIV. How Myths Die
Part Four - Humanism and the Humanities
XV. Answers to Some Investigations XVI. Scientific Criteria in the Social and Human Disciplines XVII. Cultural Discontinuity and Economic and Social Development XVIII. Race and History Bibliography Index