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October 30, 2009(2009-10-30) (aged 100) |
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Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
Works
Monographs and anthologies
- Gracchus Babeuf et le communisme, Brussels: L'églantine, 1926, 37 pp.
- La vie familiale et sociale des Indiens Nambikwara, Paris: Au siège de la Société, Musée de l'Homme, 1948, 132 pp. First published in Journal de la Société des Américanistes 37:1 (1948), pp 1-132, PDF.
- Les structures élémentaires de la parenté, Paris: PUF, 1949, 640 pp; 2nd ed., Paris and The Hague: Mouton, 1967; 1981, 591 pp.
- The Elementary Structures of Kinship, trans. James H. Bell and John R. von Sturmer, ed. Rodney Needham, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1969; Boston: Beacon Press, 1969, ch 1, ch 2, ch 4. (in English) [1]
- Die elementaren Strukturen der Verwandtschaft, trans. Eva Moldenhauer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1992. (in German) [2]
- Race et histoire, Paris: UNESCO, 1952; Paris: Gonthier, 1961; Paris: Denoël, 1987, PDF, PDF; Paris: Albin Michel, 2001, 172 pp.
- Race and History, Paris: UNESCO, 1952, IA.
- Rasse und Geschichte, trans. Traugott König, Frankurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1972, PDF, Scribd. (in German)
- Tristes tropiques, Paris: Plon, 1955; 1957, PDF; 1993, 504 pp.
- Traurige Tropen, trans. Suzanne Heintz, Cologne and Berlin: Kiepenheuer und Witsch, 1960 (partial trans.); new ed., full trans., 1970. (in German)
- Tristes Tropiques, trans. John Russell, New York: Criterion, 1961, ARG, IA. (in English)
- Tristes Tropiques, trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman, London: Jonathan Cape, 1973; New York: Atheneum, 1974, 425 pp, OL; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992. (in English)
- Traurige Tropen, trans. Eva Moldenhauer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1978. (in German) [3]
- Anthropologie structurale, Paris: Plon, 1958, IA; 1990, 452 pp.
- Structural Anthropology, trans. Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf, New York: Basic Books, 1963, ARG, PDF.
- Strukturale Anthropologie, trans. Hans Naumann, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1967; 1971. (in German) [4]
- Antropologia structurală, trans. I. Pecher, Bucharest: Politică, 1978, PDF (in Romanian)
- Antropología estructural, trans. Eliseo Verón, Barcelona and Buenos Aires: Paidós, 1978, PDF; 1995. (in Spanish)
- Le totémisme aujourd'hui, Paris: PUF, 1962; 1985, 159 pp.
- Totemism, trans. Rodney Needham, Boston: Beacon Press, 1963, [5]; London: Merlin, 1964; 1991, PDF. (in English)
- Das Ende des Totemismus, trans. Hans Naumann, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1965, [6]. (in German) [7]
- La pensée sauvage, Paris: Plon, 1962, IA, PDF; 1990, 389 pp.
- The Savage Mind, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966, PDF, [8]; University of Chicago Press, 1966, 290 pp, OL. (in English)
- Das Wilde Denken, trans. Hans Naumann, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1968. (in German)
- El pensamiento salvaje, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1997, PDF. (in Spanish)
- Mythologiques, 4 vols., Paris: Plon, 1964-71.
- I, Le cru et le cuit, 1964, PDF.
- The Raw and the Cooked', trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman, New York: Harper and Row, 1969; University of Chicago Press, 1983. (in English)
- Das Rohe und das Gekochte, trans. Eva Moldenhauer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1970. (in German)
- II, Du miel aux cendres, Paris: Plon, 1966, PDF.
- Vom Honig zur Asche, trans. Eva Moldenhauer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1972. (in German)
- From Honey to Ashes, trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman, University of Chicago Press, 1973. (in English)
- III, L'origine des manières de table, 1968.
- Vom Unsprung der Tischsitten, trans. Eva Moldenhauer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1973. (in German)
- The Origin of Table Manners, trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman, University of Chicago Press, 1978. (in English)
- IV, L'homme nu, 1971.
- Der Nackte Mensch, 2 vols., trans. Eva Moldenhauer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1975. (in German)
- The Naked Man, trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman, University of Chicago Press, 1981. (in English)
- Anthropologie structurale deux, Paris: Plon, 1973; 1996, 450 pp.
- Strukturale Anthropologie II, trans. Eva Moldenhauer, Hans Henning Ritter and Traugott König, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1975. (in German) [9]
- Structural Anthropology, Vol. II, trans. Monique Layton, London: Allen Lane, 1976. (in English)
- La Voie des masques, 2 vols., Genève: A. Skira, 1975; Plon, 1979; Paris: Presses, 1988, 215 pp.
- The Way of the Masks, trans. Sylvia Modelski, University of Washington Press, 1982. (in English)
- Der Weg der Masken, , trans. Eva Moldenhauer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2004. (in German) [10]
- Le Regard éloigné, Paris: Plon, 1983, 398 pp, [11]. Vol. 3 of Anthropologie structurale.
- The View from Afar, trans. Joachim Neugroschel and Phoebe Hoss, New York: Basic Books, 1985. (in English)
- Der Blick aus der Ferne, trans. Hans-Horst Henschen and Joseph Vogl, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008. (in German) [12]
- La Potière jalouse, Paris: Plon, 1985, 314 pp.
- The Jealous Potter, trans. Bénédicte Chorier, University of Chicago Press, 1988. (in English)
- De près et de loin, Paris: O. Jacob, 1988, 252 pp.
- Des Symboles et leurs doubles, Paris: Plon, 1989, 270 pp.
- Histoire de lynx, Paris: Plon, 1991, 358 pp.
- The Story of Lynx, trans. Catherine Tihanyi, University of Chicago Press, 1995, 276 pp, OL. (in English)
- Die Luchsgeschichte - Zwillingsmythologie in der Neuen Welt, trans. Hans-Horst Henschen, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2004. (in German) [13]
- Regarder, écouter, lire, Paris: Plon, 1993, 223 pp.
- Look, Listen, Read, trans. Brian Singer, New York: Basic Books, 1997. (in English)
- Mirar, escuchar, leer, trans. Emma Calatayud, Madrid: Siruela, 1994, PDF. (in Spanish)
- Sehen, Hören, Lesen, trans. Hans-Horst Henschen, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2004. (in German) [14]
- Saudades do Brasil, Paris: Plon, 1994, 188 pp; 2008.
- Saudades do Brasil: A Photographic Memoir, trans. Sylvia Modelski, University of Washington Press, 1995, 221 pp. (in English)
- Saudades do Brasil, trans. Glauco Felici, Milan: Il Saggiatore, 1995. (in Italian)
- Saudades de São Paulo, 1995.
- Le Père Noël supplicié, [1952], Pin-Balma: Sables, 1994, 51 pp. First published in Les Temps Modernes 77 (1952), pp 1572-1590, PDF.
- Nature, culture et société: les structures élémentaires de la parenté, chapitres I et II, Paris: Flammarion, 2008, 128 pp.
- L’Autre face de la lune. Ecrits sur le Japon, Paris: Seuil, 2011.
- Die andere Seite des Mondes - Schriften über Japan, trans. Eva Moldenhauer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2012. (in German) [15]
- L’Anthropologie face aux problèmes du monde moderne, Paris: Seuil, 2011.
- Anthropologie in der modernen Welt, trans. Eva Moldenhauer, intro. Maurice Olender, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2012. (in German) [16]
- Nous sommes tous des cannibales, Paris: Seuil, 2013.
- Wir sind alle Kannibalen, trans. Eva Moldenhauer, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2014. (in German) [17]
Selected essays
- "Introduction à l’oeuvre de Marcel Mauss", in Marcel Mauss, Sociologie et Anthropologie, Paris: PUF, 1950, pp IX-LII.
- Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss, trans. Felicity Baker, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987, 89 pp, PDF, [18]. (in English)
- At Persee.fr
Lectures and talks
- Leçon inaugurale (au Collège de France 5 janvier 1960), Daupeley-Gouverneur, 1960, 47 pp, HTML; repr. in Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologie structurale deux, 1973.
- The Scope of Anthropology, trans. Sherry Ortner Paul and Robert A. Paul, London: Jonathan Cape, 1967, 53 pp, PDF. (in English)
- Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture, intro. Wendy Doniger, University of Toronto Press, 1978; Schocken Books, 1979; 1995, 58 pp, PDF; Routledge, 2001, [19]. (in English). Talks broadcasted on the CBC Radio in December 1977.
- Mythos und Bedeutung - Fünf Radiovorträge. Gespräche mit Claude Lévi-Strauss, ed. Adelbert Reif, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1992. (in German) [20]
- Paroles données, Paris: Plon, 1984, 277 pp.
- Anthropology and Myth: Lectures, 1951-1982, trans. Roy Willis, Oxford: Blackwell, 1987. (in English)
Collected works
- Oeuvres, eds. M. Mauzé, V. Debaene, M. Rueff and F. Keck, Paris: Gallimard, 2008, 2063 pp. Contains Tristes tropiques; Le totémisme aujourd'hui; La pensée sauvage; La voie des masques; La potière jalouse; Histoire de lynx; Regarder écouter lire. Review
Bibliographies
Interviews
- Entretiens avec Claude Lévi-Strauss, ed. Georges Charbonnier, Paris: Plon-Juliard, 1961.
- Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss, trans. Paula Wissing, London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. (in English)
- Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss, ed. Didier Eribon, University of Chicago Press, 1991. (in English)
- Claude Levi-Strauss, un itinéraire: entretien avec Marcello Massenzio, 26 juin 2000, Paris: l'Échoppe, 2002, 43 p.
- Loin du Brésil: entretien avec Véronique Mortaigne, Paris: Chandeigne, 2005, 27 pp.
Literature
Monographs
- Edmund Leach (ed.), The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism, London: Tavistock, 1967. (in English)
- Octavio Paz, Claude Lévi Strauss: an Introduction, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970. (in English)
- E. Nelson Hayes, Tanya Hayes (eds.), Claude Lévi-Strauss: the Anthropologist as Hero, MIT Press, 1970. (in English)
- Ino Rossi (ed.), The Unconscious in Culture: the Structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss in Perspective, New York: Dutton, 1974. (in English)
- Raymond Bellour, Catherine Clément (eds.), Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1979. (in English)
- Roland Champagne, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Boston: Twayne, 1987. (in English)
- François Dosse, Histoire du structuralisme 1, Paris: La Découverte, 1991.
- Geschichte des Strukturalismus. Bd 1: Das Feld des Zeichens, 1945-1966, trans. Deborah Glassman, Hamburg: Junius, 1996, Log. (in German)
- History of Structuralism, Vol. 1: The Rising Sign, 1945-1966, trans. Deborah Glassman, University of Minnesota Press, 1997, Log. (in English)
- Jacquy Chemouni, Psychanalyse et anthropologie : Lévi-Strauss et Freud, Paris & Montréal: L’Harmattan, 1997.
- Robert Deliege, Introduction à l'anthropologie structurale : Lévi-Strauss aujourd'hui, Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2001.
- Catherine Clement, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Paris: PUF, 2002.
- Denis Bertholet, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Paris: Plon, 2003.
- Philippe Cazier, Abécédaire de Claude Lévi-Strauss, Mons: Sils Maria, 2008.
- Ronan Le Roux, "Lévi-Strauss, une reception paradoxale de la cybernétique", L’Homme 189 (January-March 2009), pp 165-190, HTML.
- Patrick Wilcken, Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory, New York: Penguin, 2010, [21]. (in English)
- L'Homme 193: "Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)", 2010. [22]
Selected papers and articles
- Louis Althusser, "On Lévi-Strauss", in Althusser, The Humanist Controversy and Other Writings, ed. François Matheron, trans. G.M. Goshgarian, London: Verso, 2003, pp 19-32. (in English)
- Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, "From Information Theory to French Theory: Jakobson, Levi-Strauss, and the Cybernetic Apparatus", Critical Inquiry 38 (Autumn 2011), pp 96-126, PDF. (in English)
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