Lévi-Strauss, anthropology and aesthetics / Boris Wiseman.
"In a wide-ranging and original study of Claude Levi-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 Levi-Strauss's thinki...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Ideas in context ;
85. |
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| Summary: | "In a wide-ranging and original study of Claude Levi-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 Levi-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 Levi-Strauss's aesthetic theory forms an integral part of his approach to Amerindian masks, body decoration and mythology. He reveals the significance of Levi-Strauss's anthropological analysis of an 'untamed' mode of thinking (pensee 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. Levi-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."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-239) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521875293 9780521875295 |