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The "structural method," first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of individuals--kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art.Tags
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Quite differant from the English empirical tradition but a tour de force - especially Chapter 1 on History and Anthropology.
Quite differant from the English empirical tradition but a tour de force - especially Chapter 1 on History and Anthropology.
I feel like such a butt giving this book a one star, but it's not that the book is bad -- it's not. It's just that I didn't like it, precisely what the * rating says.
I'm thankful, though. Made me realise that Anthropology is not for me, despite all the other allure of this course.
I'm thankful, though. Made me realise that Anthropology is not for me, despite all the other allure of this course.
Più copia del 1998 Est.
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En esta obra, Claude Lévi-Struss expone y lleva a la práctica el método estructural a cuyo desarrollo va íntimamente unido su nombre. Al abordar los grandes problemas de la antropología social- de las reglas del parentesco y del matrimonio a la prohibición del incesto y la exogamia, pasando por los ritos y prácticas de la magia-, el texto analiza los problemas metodológicos que plantea el estructuralismo, y define e ilustra la ambición del autor respecto a planear un verdadero análisis científico de los fenómenos humanos sin traicionarlos, es decir, sin hacerles perder nada de su riqueza ni de los sutiles matices derivados de su diversidad.
Oct 14, 2024Spanish
Esta segunda Antropología estructural reúne textos de Claude Lévi-Strauss dispersos hasta ahora, y a veces de difícil acceso, escogidos de tal suerte que hasta un lector poco familiarizado con los problemas de la etnología contemporánea consiga conocer, mediante muestras representativas, la actitud y el proceder de la antropología estructural.
Jan 31, 2025Spanish
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Claude Levi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, was the founder of structural anthropology. This theoretical position assumes that there are structural propensities in the human mind that lead unconsciously toward categorization of physical and social objects, hence such book titles as The Raw and the Cooked (1964) and such expositions of his work show more by others as The Unconscious in Culture and Elementary Structures Reconsidered. According to Levi-Strauss, the models of society that scholars create are often dual in nature:status-contract (Maine): Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft (Tonnies); mechanical-organic solidarity (Durkheim); folk-urban (Redfield); universalism-particularism (Parsons); and local-cosmopolitan (Merton). Levi-Strauss's writings---some of which have been described by Clifford Geertz as "theoretical treatises set out as travelogues"---have been enormously influential throughout the scholarly world. George Steiner has described him, along with Freud (see also Vol. 5) and Marx (see also Vol. 4), as one of the major architects of the thought of our times. Levi-Strauss died October 30, 2009. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Anthropologie structural
- Original publication date
- 1958 (original French) (original French); 1963 (English: Jacobson) (English: Jacobson); 1966 (1. ed. italiana) (1. ed. italiana); 1968 (Argentina) (Argentina)
- First words
- More than a half-century has elapsed since Hauser and Simiand formulated and contrasted the principles and methods which seemed to them to distinguish history from sociology.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)For anthropology would plead in vain for that recognition to which its outstanding achievements in the realm of theory otherwise entitle it if, in this ailing and troubled world of ours, did it not first endeavor to prove its usefulness.
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- French
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- Anthropology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Philosophy
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- 301.2 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Culture and cultural processes
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- GN362 .L4813 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Anthropology Anthropology Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology Culture and cultural processes
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