The View from Afar

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UPC:
9780465090259
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
4/24/1985
Author:
Claude Levi-Strauss
Language:
english
Edition:
First Edition
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This collection touches on a wide range of anthropological issues, including family and marriage, myths, and rites, the environment and its representation, and constraint and freedom. The essays encompass more than forty years of analysis and constrain arguments that are as relevant today as they were thirty years ago.

Hardly a field remains untouchedsociobiology, linguistics, botany, genetics, psychiatry, esthetics, ecology, politics, neuroscience, education, morality, psychology. . . . It's all breathtaking and alarming, some of it wonderful, some of it ridiculous. . . . At times the experience is exhilarating. Richard A. Shweder, New York Times Book Review