Claude Levi-Strauss(English, Hardcover, Leach Edmund)

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Claude Levi-Strauss(English, Hardcover, Leach Edmund) is written by Leach Edmund and published by The University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226469689 (ISBN 10) and 9780226469683 (ISBN 13).

In this lucide guide to the often abstruse works of Claude Levi-Strauss, Edmund Leach synthesizes the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest anthropologists and provides a thoughtful introduction to the theory and practice of structuralism. Leach organizes his work not by chronology but by theme, exploring three important topics in Levi-Strauss's work: human beings and their symbols, the structure of myth, and kinship theory. Written concisely and with great care and penetration, this brief book is both a fine introduction for the uninitiated reader of Levi-Strauss and a critical analysis that will prove valuable to those more familiar with the anthropologist's work.