Original analysis of and introduction to Claude Lévi-Strauss, the most celebrated of twentieth-century anthropologists.
The most celebrated of twentieth-century anthropologists, Levi-Strauss' work has been influential across the entire field of the humanities and social sciences. Christopher Johnson examines the anthropologist's formative career and provides an introduction to key aspects of his thought, concentrating not only on what Levi-Strauss thinks, but how he thinks.
Introduction: before and after structuralism; 1. The place of anthropology; 2. The model of exchange; 3. From kinship to myth; 4. Structuralism and humanism; 5. Anthropology and autobiography; Conclusion: the will to coherence.