Table of Contents

Note on the French Edition

List of Illustrations


Introduction by Vincent Debaene


History and method

I. French Sociology

II. In Memory of Malinowski

III. The Work of Edward Westermarck

IV. The Name of the Nambikuara


Individual and society

V. Five Book Reviews

VI. Techniques for Happiness


Reciprocity and hierarchy

VII. War and Trade among the Indians of South America

VIII. The Theory of Power in a Primitive Society

IX. Reciprocity and Hierarchy

X. The Foreign Policy of a Primitive Society


Art

XI. Indian Cosmetics

XII. The Art of the Northwest Coast at the American Museum of Natural History


South American ethnography

XIII. The Social Use of Kinship Terms among Brazilian Indians

XIV. On Dual Organization in South America

XV. The Tupí-Cawahíb

XVI. The Nambicuara

XVII. Tribes of the Right Bank of the Guaporé River


Map

Sources

Notes

Index

About the Author

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) was one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century.  He held the Chair of Social Anthropology at the College de France from 1959 to 1982 and was the author of many books including Tristes Tropiques and Structural Anthropology.

Reviews

“This volume makes available the early writings of the great anthropologist and philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss, which together constitute a prehistory of structuralism. It sheds light on his American period, in exile during World War II, a time of great creativity during which he met and was strongly influenced by Roman Jakobson and was introduced to Northwest Coast art – in short, a time of life that was a catalyst for who he would become in his later incarnation as an international intellectual celebrity.”
Michael E. Harkin, University of Wyoming