CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS was a leading social anthropologist and the author of Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, Tristes Tropiques, Totemism, The Savage Mind, The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes, and Structural Anthropology. Born in 1908, he was revered as the father of modern anthropology. He died in Paris in 2009.
"If someone who had just heard Levi-Strauss's name for the first
time asked me to explain . . . what he was all about, I would pick
up Myth and Meaning and start reading it out loud . . . Only
here does one have a lucid, candid, personal exposition of the
major ideas that have driven him all his life."
--from the Foreword by Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago
"There is no easier or quicker way than through this book into
that heart of darkness Levi-Strauss calls the 'totalitarian
ambition of the savage mind' as it throbs beneath the surface of
the 'civilized' mind."
--Philip Rieff, Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of
Pennsylvania "'If in the end you cannot tell everyone what you have
been up to, your life's work has been in vain, ' Edwin Schroedenger
told us. In this eloquently slim volume, Levi-Strauss delivers on
Schroedinger's implied request exquisitely. If every major thinker
could summarize his or her conclusions this clearly, the
fragmentation that threatens to reduce understanding to incoherence
would be tempered considerably."
--Huston Smith, University, Berkeley, and author of Forgotten
Truth and Beyond the Post-Modern Mind
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