Introducing Levi-Strauss: a Graphic Guide

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Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; A Meeting with Lévi-Strauss; Pioneers of Anthropology: Malinowski; Mauss and the Rule of Reciprocity; Cross-Cousin Marriages; Exogamous and Endogamous Marriages; What is the "Elementary Unit"?; The Saussurian Model; Kinship is Communication; The Incest Taboo; The Rule of Incest; Totemism; The Rise and Fall of Totemism; Totemism and Hysteria; Excluding and Classifying; How is "Totemism" Explained?; The Totemic Operator; Species and Systems; The Nature of Thinking; The Instinct for Knowledge; Anthropology is a Psychology; Classification or Taxonomy;An Introducing Graphic Guide to the father of modern anthropology. Intro Title Page Copyright Contents A Meeting with Lévi-Strauss Pioneers of Anthropology: Malinowski Mauss and the Rule of Reciprocity Cross-Cousin Marriages Exogamous and Endogamous Marriages What is the "Elementary Unit"? The Saussurian Model Kinship is Communication The Incest Taboo The Rule of Incest Totemism The Rise and Fall of Totemism Totemism and Hysteria Excluding and Classifying How is "Totemism" Explained? The Totemic Operator Species and Systems The Nature of Thinking The Instinct for Knowledge Anthropology is a Psychology Classification or Taxonomy Some Properties of Classificatory SystemsWhat is Thinking? The Logic of the Concrete Thinking by Analogies How Concrete Logic Functions How Primitive Science Works Bricolage Working with Signs Lévi-Strauss and the Prague Connection Hot and Cold Societies Writing and Social Hierarchies A Writing Lesson How Cold Societies Resist Change Games, Rituals and Classifications History as Linear Time: Hot Societies Time as a Circle: Cold Societies Lévi-Straussian Aesthetics Signs Versus Mimesis Primitivism in Western Art Modernist Art The Relation of Art to Language The Art of Masks A System of LinksThe Meaning of Masks Masks and Cosmetics The Functions of Masks Symbols and Scale Models Reduced to Art Seeing the Whole Before the Parts The Analogous Object The Hidden Structure of Things Myths of the American Indians What is Myth? A Sample Myth Guidelines to a Study of Myths The Bororo Myth (M1) The Position of the Jaguar The Hidden Armatures Binary Oppositions From Nature to Culture Myths and Paradoxes Do Myths Have Meaning? The Oedipus Myth The Interpretation The Percival Legend The Interpretation Myth and Music Structuralism and the Body Further ReadingAcknowledgements About the Author Index