Levi-Strauss continues his assault on the myth of the primitice as savage by turning to the phenomena of totemism an totoemix classification … to show, contrary to this myth, that…

Structural Anthropology (1958) not only transformed the discipline of anthropology, it also energized a movement called structuralism that came to dominate the humanities and social sciences for a generation.

In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century’s most prominent thinkers, Claude Levi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of…

The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume [of Mythologiques], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time… . Myths from North and…

Levi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom … a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments… . [The Raw and the…

This analysis of the mythology of American Indians considers the many variations in a specific story that occur in both North and South America, but especially along the Northwest Coast…

The primary concern of this book is to investigate whether or not structuralism constitutes a distinctive framework in the social sciences. The author focuses on two major structuralist thinkers, Louis…

First published in French in 2006, Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth contains an in-depth, paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of stories on womb memories, birth, namesaking, and reincarnation. This new English edition…