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.

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, 1955.
  • Tristes tropiques, 1961 (in English).
  • trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman, 1973.
• Anthropologie structurale, 1958.
  • Structural Anthropology, trans. Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf, 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.
• 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)

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.

Links

• Biography (in French)
• Interview with Lévi-Strauss (in Spanish)