Other Face of the Moon

Informationen zum Autor Claude Lévi-Strauss was chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France (1959–1982). Junzo Kawada is a cultural anthropologist in Japan. Klappentext Gathering all of Claude Lévi-Strauss¿s writings on Japan, this sustained meditation follows his dictum that to understand one¿s own culture, one must see it from another¿s point of view. For Lévi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. This English translation presents one of France¿s most public figures at his most personal. Levi-Strauss was certainly not the only French intellectual to develop a fascination for Japan. Indeed, Japan's sculptured landscapes, highly stylized rituals and philosophies of self-denial struck a particular chord with his structuralist contemporaries, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault. But the impressions gathered here are distinctively his, and indeed sometimes read as if they were lifted straight from the "Mythologiques"... There is much to admire [here]... Still fizzing with ideas as he approached eighty, Claude Levi-Strauss never relented on his increasingly lonely structuralist quest. His fascination for Japanese traditions, similar to his lifelong obsession with ethnography in general, stemmed in part from his feeling of alienation from modernity.--Patrick Wilcken"Times Literary Supplement" (07/05/2013) Zusammenfassung Gathering all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on Japan, this sustained meditation follows his dictum that to understand one’s own culture, one must see it from another’s point of view. For Lévi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. This English translation presents one of France’s most public figures at his most personal.

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• Authors: Claude L?vi-Strauss, Claude Laevi-Strauss, Claude Levi Strauss, LEVI STRAUSS CLAUDE, LEVI STRAUSS CLAUDE KAWADA JUNZ, Claude Levi-Strauss, Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Assisted by: Kawada Junzo (Foreword), Jane Marie Todd (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.03.2013
• EAN: 9780674072923
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07292-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Japan, Sociology, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Asian History