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• ISBN: 0465082300
• ISBN: 9780465082308
• ISBN: 046509516X
• ISBN: 9780465095162
• Physical Description: 2 volumes : illustrations, diagrams, plan ; 25 cm
• Publisher: New York : Basic Books, [©1963-76]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Vol. 2 translated by M. Layton.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, pages 385-398; v. 2, p. 363-372) and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

v. 1. Author's preface -- Translator's preface -- I. Introduction: History and anthropology -- Part 1. Language and kinship. II. Structural analysis in linguistics and in anthropology ; III. Language and the analysis of social laws ; IV. Linguistics and anthropology ; V. Postscript to Chapters III and IV -- Part 2. Social organization. VI. The concept of archaism in anthropology ; VII. Social structures of central and eastern Brazil ; VIII. Do dual organizations exist? -- Part 3. Magic and religion. IX. The sorcerer and his myth ; X. The effectiveness of symbols ; XI. The structural study of myth ; XII. Structure and dialectics -- Part 4. Art. XIII. Split representation in the art of Asia and America ; XIV. The serpent with fish inside his body -- Part 5. Problems of method and teaching. XV. Social structure ; XVI. Postscript to Chapter XV ; XVII. The place of anthropology in the social sciences and problems raised in teaching it --

v. 2. Author's preface -- Translator's preface -- Part 1. Perspective views. I. The scope of anthropology ; II. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, founder of the sciences of man ; III. What ethnology owes to Durkheim ; IV. The work of the Bureau of American Ethnology and its lessons ; V. Comparative religions of nonliterate peoples -- Part 2. Social organization. VI. The meaning and use of the notion of model ; VII. Reflections on the atom of kinship -- Part 3. Mythology and ritual. VIII. Structure and form : reflections on a work by Vladimir Propp ; IX. The story of Asdiwal ; X. Four Winnebago myths ; XI. The sex of the sun and moon ; XII. Mushrooms in culture : apropos of a book by R.G. Wasson ; XIII. Relations of symmetry between rituals and myths of neighboring peoples ; XIV. How myths die -- Part 4. Humanism and the humanities. XV. Answers to some investigations ; XVI. Scientific criteria in the social and human disciplines ; XVII. Cultural discontinuity and economic and social development ; XVIII. Race and history.

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Structural anthropology.