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(0)Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Levi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom ... a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments. ... "The Raw and the Cooked" adds yet another chapter to the tireless quest for a scientifically accurate, esthetically viable, and philosophically relevant cultural anthropology. ... It is indispensable reading.
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"On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own custom barbarism," said Montaigne. In these essays, Claude Lévi-Strauss shows us behavior that is bizarre, shocking, and...
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As Levi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification," and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. Levi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers of structuralism.
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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 Levi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of individuals' kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art. -- From product's description.
11) Myth and meaning
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In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's 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 'Can there be meaning in chaos?', 'What can science learn from myth?' and 'What is structuralism?', Lévi-Strauss presents, in clear, precise language, essential guidance for those who want to learn more...
12) The savage mind
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Discusses the significance of totemism among primitive peoples and its interpretation by anthropologists and philosophies.
The author demonstrates how each culture has its own system of the concepts and categories derived from experience and imposed by the surrounding natural world. Through the order in the naming of plants and animals, concepts of space and time, myths and rituals, primitive societies engage in a high level of abstract reasoning...
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Of Boas' field trips -- Boas' methodology -- Manuscript materials -- Earlier publication of individual sections of the Sagen -- Publication of the Sagen -- An evaluation of the Sagen -- Boas' orthography -- History of this translation -- Boas' preface to the original 1895 edition -- I: Shuswap -- II: Ntlakyapamuq (Thompson) -- 3: Lower Fraser River -- 4: Cowichan -- 5: Nanaimo -- 6: Squamish -- 7: Lukungun -- 8: Comox -- 9: Klahoose -- 10: Sliammon...