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《슬픈 열대》는 구조주의를 제창한 프랑스의 사회인류학자 클로드 레비스트로스가 1955년에 쓴 일종의 기행문으로 자신의 청년기나 사상, 인류학을 자신의 학문영역으로 설정하게 된 동기 등을 자서전의 형식으로 기술하고 있는 책이다. 저자는 1937년부터 1938년까지 브라질 내륙지방에 살고 있던 카듀베오족과 보로로족, 낭비크왈라족, 투피카와이브족 등 원주민 사회의 문화를 관찰하고 그 결과에 대해 서술했으나, 단순히 민족지의 차원을 넘어서 서구를 지배해온 '문명'과 '야만'의 개념을 통렬히 비판하고 있다. 9부로 되어 있으며, 학문적 자기형성을 서술한 부분, 1930년대 …

The Savage Mind is a 1962 work of structural anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss. The English translation appeared in 1966.

Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human history. In these five lectures originally prepared for Canadian …

The Anthropologie structurale deux is a collection of texts by Claude Lévi-Strauss that was first published in 1973, the year Lévi-Strauss was elected to the Académie française. The texts are in turn a result of an earlier collection of texts, Anthropologie structurale that he had published in 1958. The work is …

The Raw and the Cooked is the first volume from Mythologiques, a structural study of Amerindian mythology written by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. It was originally published in French as Le Cru et le Cuit. Although the book is part of a larger volume Lévi-Strauss writes that it may be appreciated on its …

Professor Lévi-Strauss’s first major work, Les Structures élémentaires de la Parenté, has acquired a classic reputation since its original publication in 1949; and it has become the constant focus of academic debate about central theoretical concerns in social anthropology. It is, however, a long and difficult book …