The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. His work has had a profound impact not only within anthropology but also linguistics, sociology and philosophy. In this short book he examines the natur...
In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth centurys most prominent thinkers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence. Responding to questions as varied as...
" The Origin of Table Manners is the third volume of a tetralogy devoted to American Indian mythology. Unlike the first two volumes ( The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes ), which are devoted to South American myths, the present one establishes...
In anthropological terms the concept of "the raw" verses "the cooked" has long been associated with the dichotomy between the natural world and the world of human culture. In a broad-based empirical study of native mythologies, Claude...
En este segundo volumen de sus 'Mitológicas', Claude Lévi-Strauss prosigue y afina su asombrosa indagación en la naturaleza del pensamiento llamado primitivo. 'De la miel a las cenizas' se subtitula este libro donde,...
A las críticas orientadas hacia los fundamentos teóricos del análisis estructural, Lévi-Strauss responde en esta obra del modo más contundente: demostrando la fecundidad de su método y revelando cómo ilumin...