View from Afar - Hardcover

Levi-Strauss, Claude

3.9

41 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465090257 ISBN 13: 9780465090259

Publisher: Basic Books, 1985

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

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

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of 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 title" may belong to another edition of this title.