Claude L?vi-Strauss The Father of Modern Anthropology

Name: Claude L?vi-Strauss The Father of Modern Anthropology
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ISBN: 9780143120629

ISBN-10: 014312062X

ISBN-13: 9780143120629

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Authors: Patrick Wilcken

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The first biography in English of the intellectual giant who founded modern anthropology. One of the defining intellectuals of the twentieth century, Claude Levi-Strauss revolutionized anthropology, transforming it from the colonial-era study of "exotic" tribes to one consumed with fundamental questions about the nature of humanity and civilization itself. This acclaimed biography not only follows the anthropologist's peripatetic career, from the depths of Amazonia in the 1930s to postwar Paris, but also offers an invaluable guide to his most influential theories. The result seamlessly blends a portrait of an extraordinary life with a primer on twentieth-century anthropology.

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/31/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.39" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.880

Patrick Wilcken grew up in Sydney and studied at Goldsmiths College and the Institute of Latin American Studies in London. He has contributed Brazil-related reviews and features to the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian. He is the author of Empire Adrift: He has spent lengthy periods in Rio de Janeiro and now lives in London with his wife and child.



Introduction



Early Years



Arabesque



Rondon's Line



Exile



Elementary Structures



On the Shaman's Couch



Memoir



Modernism



"Mind in the Wild"



The Nebula of Myth



Convergence


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Further Reading


Index