Author: Wilcken, Patrick
Title: Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory.
Description: New York : Penguin Press HC, The, 2010. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 416 pp.- The definitive account of the life, work, and legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss, father of modern anthropology and one of the postwar era's most influential thinkers. When Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away last October at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but also one of the defining intellectuals of the twentieth century. Just as Freud had shaken up the antiquarian discipline of psychiatry, so had Lévi-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. In Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wilcken gives the reader a fascinating intellectual tour of the anthropologist's landmark works: Tristes Tropiques, a literary meditation on his travels and fieldwork; The Savage Mind, which showed that primitive people are driven by the same intellectual curiosities as their Western counterparts; and finally his monumental four-volume Mythologiques, a study of the universal structures of native mythology in the Americas. In the years that Lévi-Strauss published these pioneering works, Wilcken observes, tribal societies seemed to hold the answers to the most profound questions about the human mind. Following the great anthropologist from São Paulo to the Brazilian interior, and from New York to Paris, Patrick Wilcken's Claude Lévi- Strauss is both an evocative journey and an intellectual biography of one of the twentieth-century's most influential minds.English text. Condition : as new. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. ISBN 9781594202735.

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