Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer and Franz Boas, the "father of modern anthropology". The work of Lévi-Strauss was also key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
Contents
Literature
Monographs
- Gracchus Babeuf et le communisme, L'églantine, 1926.
- La Vie familiale et sociale des Indiens Nambikwara, Paris, Société des américanistes, 1948.
- Les Structures élémentaires de la parenté, 1949.
- The Elementary Structures of Kinship, trans. J.H. Bell and J.R. von Sturmer, ed. Rodney Needham, Boston: Beacon Press, 1969. [1]
- Race et histoire, Paris: UNESCO, 1952; Paris: Denoël, 1987 [2].
- Race and history, UNESCO, 1952.
- Rasse und Geschichte, trans. Traugott König, Frankurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1972 [3].
- Tristes Tropiques, Paris: Plon, 1955, 1957.
- Tristes tropiques, 1961 (in English).
- trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman, 1973.
- Anthropologie structurale, 1958.
- Structural Anthropology, trans. Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf, New York: Basic Books, 1963.
- Antropologia structurală, trans. I. Pecher, Bucuresti: Editura Politică, 1978 (in Romanian).
- Antropología estructural, trans. Eliseo Verón, Barcelona & Buenos Aires: Ediciones Paidós, 1978, 1995 (in Spanish).
- Le Totemisme aujourdhui, 1962.
- Totemism, trans. Rodney Needham, London: Merlin Press, 1964, 1991.
- La Pensée sauvage, Paris: Plon, 1962.
- The Savage Mind, 1966.
- El pensamiento salvaje, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1997 (in Spanish).
- Mythologiques I–IV, trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman.
- Le Cru et le cuit, 1964.
- The Raw and the Cooked', 1969.
- Du miel aux cendres, Paris: Plon, 1966.
- From Honey to Ashes, 1973.
- L'Origine des manières de table, 1968.
- The Origin of Table Manners, 1978.
- L'Homme nu, 1971.
- The Naked Man, 1981.
- Le Cru et le cuit, 1964.
- Anthropologie structurale deux, 1973.
- Structural Anthropology, Vol. II, trans. Monique Layton, 1976.
- La Voie des masques, 1972.
- The Way of the Masks, trans. Sylvia Modelski, 1982.
- Myth and Meaning, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.
- Le Regard éloigné, 1983.
- The View from Afar, trans. Joachim Neugroschel and Phoebe Hoss, 1985.
- Paroles donnés, 1984.
- Anthropology and Myth: Lectures, 1951–1982, trans. Roy Willis, 1987.
- La Potière jalouse, 1985.
- The Jealous Potter, trans. Bénédicte Chorier, 1988.
- Histoire de Lynx, 1991.
- The Story of Lynx, trans. Catherine Tihanyi, University of Chicago Press, 1996.
- Regarder, écouter, lire, 1993.
- Look, Listen, Read, trans. Brian Singer, 1997.
- Saudades do Brasil, Paris, Plon, 1994.
- Le Père Noël supplicié, Pin-Balma, Sables, 1994.
- L’Anthropologie face aux problèmes du monde moderne, Paris: Seuil, 2011.
- L’Autre face de la lune, Paris: Seuil, 2011.
Other books
- with Georges Charbonnier, Entretiens avec Claude Lévi-Strauss, Paris: Plon-Juliiard, 1962.
- Leçon inaugurale (au Collège de France 5 janvier 1960), Daupeley-Gouverneur, 1960, 47 pp; repr. in Anthropologie structurale deux, Plon (chapitre premier), 1973.
- The Scope of Anthropology, trans. Sherry Ortner Paul and Robert A. Paul, London: Jonathan Cape, 1967, 53 pp. (in English)
- M. Mauzé, V. Debaene, M. Rueff and F. Keck (ed.), Claude Lévi-Strauss. Oeuvres. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Gallimard, Paris, 2008, 2128 p. review
Selected Papers and Articles
- "Sexualidad femenina y origen de la Sociedad", trans. Rossana Reves, Letras libres, año 11, núm. 16, abril 2000: 36-40; Reprint in Jean Allouch, Claude Levi-Strauss (ed.), Grafías de Eros. Historia, Género e Identidades, Buenos Aires: Edelp, 2000.
On Lévi-Strauss
- François Dosse, History of Structuralism, 2 Vols., 1991–.
- Ronan Le Roux, "Lévi-Strauss, une reception paradoxale de la cybernétique", L’Homme 189 (January-March 2009), pp 165-190. (in French)
- L'Homme 193: "Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)", 2010. (in French)
- Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, "From Information Theory to French Theory: Jakobson, Levi-Strauss, and the Cybernetic Apparatus", Critical Inquiry 38 (Autumn 2011), pp 96-126.
Bibliography
Links
- Biography (in French)
- Interview with Lévi-Strauss (in Spanish)