Table of Contents

* Introduction: History and Anthropology Language and Kinship * Structural Analysis in Linguistics and in Anthropology * Language and the Analysis of Social Laws * Linguistics in Anthropology * Postscript to Chapters III and IV Social Organization * The Concept of Archaism in Anthropology * Social Structures of Central and Eastern Brazil * Do Dual Organizations Exist? * The Sorcerer and His Magic * The Effectiveness of Symbols * The Structural Study of Myth * Structure and Dialectics Art * Split Representation in the Art of Asia and America * The Serpent with Fish inside His Body Problems of Method and Teaching * Social Structure * Postscript to Chapter XV * The Place of Anthropology in the Social Sciences and Problems Raised in Teaching It

About the Author

Claude Levi-Strauss is a member of the Academie Fran aise and has occupied the chair of social anthropology at the College de France. He is the author of numerous books, including Structural Anthropology, The Raw and the Cooked, The Origin of Table Manners, and The View from Afar.