The View from Afar - Softcover

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226474747 ISBN 13: 9780226474748

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1992

Synopsis

This collection touches on a wide range of anthropological issues, including family and marriage, myths, and rites, the environment and its representation, and constraint and freedom. The essays encompass more than forty years of analysis and constrain arguments that are as relevant today as they were thirty years ago.

"Hardly a field remains untouched-sociobiology, linguistics, botany, genetics, psychiatry, esthetics, ecology, politics, neuroscience, education, morality, psychology. . . . It's all breathtaking and alarming, some of it wonderful, some of it ridiculous. . . . At times the experience is exhilarating."-Richard A. Shweder, New York Times Book Review

About this title

About the Author:

Claude Levi-Strauss's works include the four volumes of Mythogiques, The Savage Mind, Structural Anthropology II, The Jealous Potter, and (with Didier Eribon) Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

From the Back Cover:

These essays encompass more than forty years of analysis and contain arguments that are as relevant today as they were when Claude Levi-Strauss first wrote them.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0226474747
• ISBN 13: 9780226474748
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 328