| Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics Contributor(s): Wiseman, Boris (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521123011 ISBN-13: 9780521123013 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $41.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 111.85 |
| Series: Ideas in Context |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.86 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a wide-ranging 2007 study of Claude L vi-Strauss's aesthetic thought, Boris Wiseman demonstrates not only its centrality within his oeuvre but also the importance of Levi-Strauss for contemporary aesthetic enquiry. Reconstructing the internal logic of L vi-Strauss's thinking on aesthetics, and showing how anthropological and aesthetic ideas intertwine at the most elemental levels in the elaboration of his system of thought, Wiseman demonstrates that L vi-Strauss's aesthetic theory forms an integral part of his approach to Amerindian masks, body decoration and mythology. He reveals the significance of L vi-Strauss's anthropological analysis of an 'untamed' mode of thinking (pens e sauvage) at work in totemism, classification and myth-making for his conception of art and aesthetic experience. In this way, structural anthropology is shown to lead to ethnoaesthetics. L vi-Strauss, Anthropology and Aesthetics adopts a broad-ranging approach that combines the different perspectives of anthropology, philosophy, aesthetic theory and literary criticism into an unusual and imaginative whole. |