Other Face of the Moon

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

Gathering for the first time all of Claude L vi-Strauss's writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist's dictum that to understand one's own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another.

Exposure to Japanese art was influential in L vi-Strauss's early intellectual growth, and between 1977 and 1988 he visited the country five times. The essays,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674072928
• ISBN13: 9780674072923
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.7" x 7.4"