My Favourite Levi-Strauss

Claude Levi-Strauss was one of the dominating postwar influences in French intellectual life and the leading exponent of Structuralism in the social sciences; his work inspired a school of academic followers in the 196s and 197s in disciplines ranging from music to literary criticism.
The Telegraph

Claude Levi-Strauss revolutionary studies of what was once called primitive man transformed Western understanding of the nature of culture, custom and civilization. His legacy is imposing. Mythologiques, his four-volume work about the structure of native mythology in the Americas, attempts nothing less than an interpretation of the world of culture and custom, shaped by analysis of several hundred myths of little-known tribes and traditions. The volumes, The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes, The Origin of Table Manners and The Naked Man, published from 1964 to 1971, challenge the reader with their complex interweaving of theme and detail.
New York Times Contents
The Making of My Favourite Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss: A Rationalist among Empiricists
Claude Levi-Strauss: His Life and Work
To Transform or to Transmorph: From Totemism to Traffic Lights to Caste
Why a Cousin Become a Spouse: Elementary, says Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss, 287: What Anniversary?
Mythologique: The Structural Method of Claude Levi-Strauss
Levi-Strauss Sartre? Kant and the Savage Mind
On Language and the Assumed Unity of the Human Sciences
Naming Conversion: Being Muslim in Old Delhi
Levi-Strauss and Evolutionary Theory
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Author/Editor Details
Edited by: Dipankar Gupta , Taught sociology & social anthropology, Jawaharlal Nehru University (now retired)