Levi-Strauss

''Leach, with great humour and impartiality, explains Levi-Strauss''s originality, castigates his intellectual arrogance and theoretical dogmatism, and puts him into perspective, not only within the field of anthropology, but also the general history of thought.'' JOHN WEIGHTMAN, ''Observer'' ''The newcomer to Levi-Strauss or to structural anthropology will find this book an admirable key to a convoluted mind and a complicated topic.'' NEW SOCIETY ''Leach, the analytic anthropologist, faults many of Levi-Strauss''s basic purposes - for example, the attempt to establish facts ''universally true of the human mind''. But Leach rightly admires Levi-Strauss''s remarkably revealing handling of complex traditions, and so attempts only to curtail Levi-Strauss''s extravagance.'' BIRMINGHAM POST

Product details

• Authors: Edmund Leach
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.1996
• EAN: 9780006863304
• ISBN: 978-0-00-686330-4
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)