Lévi-Strauss Today: An Introduction to Structural Anthropology

By Robert Deliège

Book Overview

Robert Deliege's book provides a concise overview of the monumental work of one of the greatest and most prolific thinkers of the 20th century. Claude Levi-Strauss has had a profound and lasting impact on the course of contemporary anthropology. One could further argue that he has spawned a discipline in and of itself, so widespread has the influence of structuralism been, from linguistics to philosophy to psychology. He had a formative influence on such thinkers as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, also Ernest Gellner, Jean Piaget, Paul Ricoeur and Vladimir Propp, to name but a few. Levi-Strauss' visionary work sparked the debate, criticism and fervour that revived social anthropology at a critical point in the development of the discipline. This reappraisal is essential reading for students and indeed anyone wishing to have a handy introduction to one of the world's great minds.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859738338
• ISBN13: 9781859738337
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.4" x 5.5"