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Published by PENGUIN 1977(1968), London, 1977
ISBN 10: 0140037004ISBN 13: 9780140037005
Seller: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Softcover. Condition: Vg in Wraps. Paperback Reprint. Light wear. 314 pp.
Published by London: Allen Lane the Penguin Press, 1968 & 1977, 1977
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First UK editions, first impressions. These groundbreaking initial collections of the author's works were published separately; together, they present an assemblage of foundational essays written over the course of nearly two decades and which were key to the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. Lévi-Strauss is notable for exporting structuralism from France and giving it new international prominence. He based his school of thought on the notion that "underneath the tremendous diversity of cultural practices there are universal processes of thought. All humans have a mental structure that leads them to think in certain ways and that underlies all cultural behaviour. The reason cultures differ from one another is that a society's history and environment mould people's way of seeing and understanding reality. [Lévi-Strauss] tries to penetrate these differing surface manifestations to get at the basic mental structure that underlies them. For Lévi-Strauss, structural anthropology tries to show how these surface phenomena reflect the underlying universal structures of thought" (Moberg, p. 269). The English translations first appeared in America in 1963 and 1976. They were originally published as Anthropologie structurale (1958) and Anthropologie structurale deux (1973), the latter in the same year that Lévi-Strauss was elected to the Académie français. Mark Moberg, Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History, 2013. Two works, octavo. Original brown cloth and boards, spines lettered in gilt, top edge of vol. I green. With dust jackets. With 4 photographic half-tone plates and numerous diagrams in the text. Spine ends of vol. I gently bruised, front board of vol. II bumped with some creasing to the corner, otherwise an excellent set, bright and clean, in the slightly rubbed dust jackets.