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  Claude Levi Strauss 1908 - France

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culture as a communication system, 

Study of culture proceeds by reducing cultural institutions and products into their relevant constituent units, thereby allowing one to discover the principles of their operation.


Reading

1949 The Elementary Structures of Kinship 

1953 "Problems of process: Results."  in Appraisal of anthropology today.   Edited by S. Tax, .   Chicago: University of Chicago Press

1956 "The family."  in Man, culture and society.   Edited by H. Shapiro, .   New York: Oxford University Press

1958 Anthropologie structurale.  Paris: Plon

1958  "Structure and form: Reflections on a work by Vladimir Propp."  in .   Edited by , .   .  [first published in 1960]

1962 La pensée sauvage.  Paris: Plon

1962 "Social structure."   in Anthropology today: Selections.   Edited by Sol Tax, .   Chicago: University of Chicago Press.  [first published in 1952]

1963 "The structural study of myth."  Structural Anthropology. Structural Anthropology. .  [first published in 1955]

1963 Structural anthropology.  Tr. by C. Jacobson and B. Schoepf.  New York: Basic Books.  [first published in 1958]

1963 Tristes tropiques.  Tr. by J. Russell.  New York: Atheneum.  [first published in 1955]

1963 Totemism .  Tr. by R. Needham   Boston: Beacon Press.  [first published in 1962]

1964 Le Cru and le cuit .  Paris: Plon

1966 The savage mind .  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.  [first published in 1962]

1967 "The myth of Asdiwal."  in The structural study of myth and totemism.   Edited by E. Leach, .   A.S.A. Monographs 5. London: Tavistock.  [first published in 1958]

1967 Les structures élémentaires de la parenté.  Sec. Ed.  Paris: Mouton.  [first published in 1949]

1969 The elementary structures of kinship.  Tr. by J. Bell and J. von Sturmer  Boston: Beacon Press.  [first published in 1949]

1969 The raw and the cooked: Introduction to a science of mythology .  Vol. I  New York: Harper and Row.  [first published in 1964]

1971 L'Homme nu .  Paris: Plon

1971 Mythologics.  In four volumes published from 1969 to 1981. Tr. by J. & D. Weightman.  New York: Harper and Row

1973 Anthropologie structurale II.  Paris: Plon

1976 Structural Anthropology II.  Tr. by M. Layton   New York: Basic Books.  [first published in 1973]

1977 L'identité.  Paris: Presses Universitaires de France

1981 The naked man.  Tr. by J. and D. Weightman  New York: Harper & Row.  [first published in 1971]

1983 Le Renard Eloigné.  Paris: Plon

1987 The View from Afar  [translated from the French] Penguin 

1990 De près et de loin.  Paris: Editions Odile Jacob

1991 "Maison"  in Dictionaire de l'ethnologie et l'anthropologie.   Edited by P. Bonte and M. Izard, .   Paris: Presses Universitaires de France

1993 "Father Christmas executed"  in Unwrapping Christmas.   Edited by D. Miller, 38-51.   Oxford: Clarendon Press.  [first published in 1952]

 


Writing available on the net

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1958) Structural Anthropology Chapter II Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology

 


Commentaries

Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology Marcel Hénaff 2001

See studies by E. N. Hayes, ed. (1970), E. R. Leach (1970), O. Paz (tr. 1970), H. Gardner (1972), and C. Geertz (1988).


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