Levi-Strauss on Religion
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Levi-Strauss on Religion

The Structuring Mind

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Levi-Strauss on Religion

The Structuring Mind

About this book

Levi-Strauss, the 'father of modern anthropology', is one of the most influential thinkers of the Twentieth Century. His development of 'structuralism' - the identification of patterns of human cognition and behaviour - greatly influenced Althusser, Lacan, Foucault and Derrida. -Levi-Strauss on Religion- presents one of the only examinations of the importance of Levi-Strauss' thought and work to the study of religion. The book examines his methodology as well as his contributions to the study of kinship, totemism, and myth. The issues raised by Levi-Strauss' anthropological, political and philosophical texts are placed alongside contemporary debates in religious studies and the student is introduced to the thinkers and theories that informed his writings. This book will be invaluable to students of the anthropology and phenomenology of religion.

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Information

Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781317490906
Edition
1
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction An intellectual biography
  9. Chapter 1 Lévi-Strauss, linguistics and structuralism
  10. Chapter 2 Kinship as communication
  11. Chapter 3 The illusion of totemism
  12. Chapter 4 Myths without meaning?
  13. Chapter 5 Structuralism, shamanism and material culture
  14. Chapter 6 The structure of nostalgia
  15. Chapter 7 Lévi-Strauss and the study of religions
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index