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Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics
Contributor(s): Wiseman, Boris (Author), Boris, Wiseman (Author)
ISBN: 0521875293     ISBN-13: 9780521875295
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $114.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2007
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Annotation: In a wide-ranging and original 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - General
- Philosophy | Aesthetics
Dewey: 111.85
LCCN: 2008271005
Series: Ideas in Context
Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.39" W x 9.03" (1.24 lbs) 264 pages
 
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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.