The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss

Herausgeber: Wiseman, Boris

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A major reassessment of Lévi-Strauss' work and influence. The fifteen specially-commissioned essays in this volume engage with the controversies that have surrounded his ideas, probing the concealed influences and clichés that have obscured a true understanding of his work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780521608671
• ISBN-10: 0521608678
• Artikelnr.: 25617768

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Boris Wiseman
Part I. Society and Culture: 1. Lévi-Strauss and the question of humanism Denis Kambouchner
2. Lévi-Strauss and history Michael E. Harkin
3. Structure and exchange Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel
4. The future of the structural theory of kinship Marcela Coelho de Souza
Part II. Myth and Mind: 5. The two natures of Lévi-Strauss Philippe Descola
6. On anthropological knowledge Claude Imbert
7. The limits of classification: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Mary Douglas Frédéric Keck
8. The local and the universal Eric Schwimmer
9. Lévi-Strauss and the question of symbolism Marcel Hénaff
10. Claude Lévi-Strauss's theoretical and actual approaches to myth Wendy Doniger
Part III. Language and Alterity: 11. Of The Story of Lynx: Lévi-Strauss and alterity Peter Gow
12. Before Babel: language and languages in Lévi-Strauss Christopher Johnson
Part IV. Literature and Aesthetics: 13. Structuralism, poetry, music: Lévi-Strauss between Mallarmé and Wagner Jeffrey Mehlman
14. Morphology and structural aesthetics: from Goethe to Lévi-Strauss Jean Petitot
15. Structure and sensation Boris Wiseman.