Claude Lévi-Strauss is a member of the Académie Française and has occupied the chair of
social anthropology at the Collège de France. He is the author of numerous books, including Structural Anthropology,
The Raw and the Cooked, The Origin of Table Manners, and The View from Afar.
Review
"Some of the most significant papers on social anthropology written during the past 30 years by one of
the most eminent French anthropologists."
--Choice
"Lévi-Strauss is not only one of the extremely few scholars of sufficient distinction to be able to
say, without presumption, what social anthropology is about; but he has also actually demonstrated ... that he
is pre-eminently worth listening to. He does not simply practice social anthropology, he makes exciting and original
contributions to it."
--R. Needham, Nature
Perseus Books Group Web Site, March, 2000
Summary
The "structural method," first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social
anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss's understanding of man
and society in terms of individuals-kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art.
Table of Contents
Introduction: History and Anthropology
Language and Kinship
Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology
Language and the Analysis of Social Laws
Linguistics in Anthropology
Postscript to Chapters III and IV
Social Organization
The Concept of Archaism in Anthropology
Social Structures of Central and Eastern Brazil
Do Dual Organizations Exist?
The Sorcerer and His Magic
The Effectiveness of Symbols
The Structural Study of Myth
Structure and Dialectics
Art
Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America
The Serpent with Fish inside His Body
Problems of Method and Teaching
Social Structure
Postscript to Chapter XV
The Place of Anthropology in the Social Sciences and Problems Raised in Teaching It
