Claude Levi-Strauss - Structural Anthropology Zero

1 Title page Claude Lévi-Strauss Structural Anthropology Zero Introduction by Vincent Debaene Translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff polity

2 Copyright page

3 Note on this Edition

4 Illustrations

5 Introduction by Vincent Debaene

6 History and Method

7 I French Sociology

8 II In Memory of Malinowski

9 III The Work of Edward Westermarck

10 IV The Name of the Nambikwara

11 Individual and Society

12 V Five Book Reviews

13 VI Techniques for Happiness

14 Reciprocity and Hierarchy

15 VII War and Trade among the Indians of South America

16 VIII The Theory of Power in a Primitive Society

17 IX Reciprocity and Hierarchy

18 X The Foreign Policy of a Primitive Society

19 Art

20 XI Indian Cosmetics

21 XII The Art of the Northwest Coast at the American Museum of Natural History

22 South American Ethnography

23 XIII The Social Use of Kinship Terms among Brazilian Indians

24 XIV On Dual Organization in South America

25 XV The Tupi-Kawahib

26 XVI The Nambikwara

27 XVII Tribes of the Right Bank of the Guaporé River

28 Map

29 Sources

30 Index

31 End User License Agreement

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Introduction by Vincent Debaene

Translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff

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Originally published in French as Anthropologie structurale zéro. Préfacé et édité par Vincent Debaene © Editions du Seuil, 2018. Collection La librairie du XXIe siècle , sous la direction de Maurice Olender.

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Names: Lévi-Strauss, Claude, author. | Debaene, Vincent, editor

Title: Structural anthropology zero / Claude Levi-Strauss ; edited and with an introduction by Vincent Debaene ; translated by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidof.

Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021. | Translation of: Anthropologie structurale zéro. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Writings fromLévi-Strauss’s sojourn in the United States in the 1940s that shed newlight on the thinking of one of the world’s greatest anthropologists”--Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021002218 (print) | LCCN 2021002219 (ebook) | ISBN9781509544974 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509544981 (paperback) | ISBN9781509544998 (epub) | ISBN 9781509548064 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Structural anthropology. | Structuralanthropology--History.

Classification: LCC GN362 .L44813 2021 (print) | LCC GN362 (ebook) | DDC301--dc23

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