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The published work of Claude Levi--Strauss over the last three and a half decades has established him as one of the worlda s most innovative anthropologists. Yet throughout this period he was maintaining a full taching commitment in Paris.

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"For those who interest themselves in the mechanics of intellectual labour, this book illustrated the efforts, the tentative advances and retreats, and now and again the achievements, of a thought process unfolding during some thirty-two years that amount to a large propotion of an individual life and the span of a generation."
—Claude Levi-Strauss



Table of Contents
Translators’ Note.

Preface.

1. The Field of Research.

2. Mythologics.

3. Inquiries in to Mythology and Ritual.

4. Current Controversies and Social Organization and Kinship.

5. Clan, Lineage, House.

Appendix: Nine Course Reports.

Chronological Table.

Index

Anthropology and Myth Lectures 1951 1982

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 26/03/1987
      ISBN13: 9780631144748, 978-0631144748
      ISBN10: 0631144749

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The published work of Claude Levi--Strauss over the last three and a half decades has established him as one of the worlda s most innovative anthropologists. Yet throughout this period he was maintaining a full taching commitment in Paris.

      Trade Review

      "For those who interest themselves in the mechanics of intellectual labour, this book illustrated the efforts, the tentative advances and retreats, and now and again the achievements, of a thought process unfolding during some thirty-two years that amount to a large propotion of an individual life and the span of a generation."
      —Claude Levi-Strauss



      Table of Contents
      Translators’ Note.

      Preface.

      1. The Field of Research.

      2. Mythologics.

      3. Inquiries in to Mythology and Ritual.

      4. Current Controversies and Social Organization and Kinship.

      5. Clan, Lineage, House.

      Appendix: Nine Course Reports.

      Chronological Table.

      Index

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