Structural anthropology / Claude Levi-Strauss

Introduction: History and Anthropology Language and Kinship * Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology * Language and the Analysis of Social Laws * Linguistics in Anthropology * Postscript to Chapters III and IV Social Organization * The Concept of Archaism in Anthropology * Social Structures of Central and Eastern Brazil * Do Dual Organizations Exist? * The Sorcerer and His Magic * The Effectiveness of Symbols * The Structural Study of Myth * Structure and Dialectics Art * Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America * The Serpent with Fish inside His Body Problems of Method and Teaching * Social Structure * Postscript to Chapter XV * The Place of Anthropology in the Social Sciences and Problems Raised in Teaching It

The structural method," first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Levi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of individuals,kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art