View from Afar - Hardcover

LEVI–STRAUSS

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631139664 ISBN 13: 9780631139669

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1985

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: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0631139664
• ISBN 13: 9780631139669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328