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9780857459602 | Berghahn Books, March 30, 2014, cover price $90.00
In a wide-ranging 2007 study of Claude Lévi-Strauss's aesthetic thought, Boris Wiseman demonstrates not only its centrality within his oeuvre but also the importance of Levi-Strauss for contemporary aesthetic enquiry. Reconstructing the internal logic of Lévi-Strauss's thinking on aesthetics, and showing how anthropological and aesthetic ideas intertwine at the most elemental levels in the elaboration of his system of thought, Wiseman demonstrates that Lévi-Strauss's aesthetic theory forms an integral part of his approach to Amerindian masks, body decoration and mythology. He reveals the significance of Lévi-Strauss's anthropological analysis of an 'untamed' mode of thinking (pensée sauvage) at work in totemism, classification and myth-making for his conception of art and aesthetic experience. In this way, structural anthropology is shown to lead to ethnoaesthetics. Lévi-Strauss, Anthropology and Aesthetics adopts a broad-ranging approach that combines the different perspectives of anthropology, philosophy, aesthetic theory and literary criticism into an unusual and imaginative whole.
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9780521875295, titled "Levi-Strauss, Anthropology and Aesthetics" | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2007), cover price $114.99 | About this edition: In a wide-ranging 2007 study of Claude Lévi-Strauss's aesthetic thought, Boris Wiseman demonstrates not only its centrality within his oeuvre but also the importance of Levi-Strauss for contemporary aesthetic enquiry.
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9780521123013, titled "Levi-Strauss, Anthropology and Aesthetics" | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 12, 2009), cover price $44.99
Claude Lévi-Strauss is one of the major thinkers of the modern age. Regarded as a crucial figure in the development of structuralism, his writings are studied across a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, philosophy and literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss presents a major reassessment of his work and influence. The fifteen specially-commissioned essays in this volume engage with the controversies that have surrounded his ideas, and they probe the concealed influences and clichés that have obscured a true understanding of his work. The contributors are experts drawn from a number of fields, demonstrating the durability and importance of Lévi-Strauss's work in the academy. Written for students and researchers alike, these incisive, jargon-free essays will be essential reading for anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important thinker.
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9780521846301 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 31, 2009), cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Claude Lévi-Strauss is one of the major thinkers of the modern age.
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9780521608671 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 31, 2009), cover price $34.99
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9789879065471, titled "Levi-Strauss para principiantes / Levi-Strauss for Beginners" | Errepar, November 30, 2002, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: BOOKS IN SPANISH
Product Description: Tracing the development of Levi-Strauss's thought, this book covers his early proposition that the function of the incest taboo is to initiate an exchange of women between groups, to his identification of a timeless pensee sauvage at work in the processes of cultural creation...read more
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9781840461473 | Icon Books, September 1, 2000, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Tracing the development of Levi-Strauss's thought, this book covers his early proposition that the function of the incest taboo is to initiate an exchange of women between groups, to his identification of a timeless pensee sauvage at work in the processes of cultural creation.
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