{"title":"Books by Claude Levi-Strauss","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780141197548","title":"Tristes Tropiques","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the great books of our century . . . It speaks with a human voice'  Susan Sontag\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTristes Tropiques\u003c\/i\u003e begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Lévi-Strauss  travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. His account of the people he encountered changed the field of anthropology, transforming Western notions of 'primitive' man. \u003ci\u003eTristes Tropiques\u003c\/i\u003e is a major work of art as well as of scholarship. It is a memoir of exquisite beauty and a masterpiece of travel writing: funny, discursive, movingly detailing personal and cultural loss, and brilliantly connecting disparate fields of thought. Few books have had as powerful and broad an impact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224480919925,"sku":"9780141197548","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141197548_0e47099f-41ea-4c91-b1c6-2fca3d9cbbea.jpg?v=1786010987"},{"product_id":"9780226413082","title":"Wild Thought – A New Translation of \"La Pensée sauvage\"","description":"Perhaps the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Levi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought, equal to that of phenomenology and existentialism. Through a fertile mixture of insights gleaned from linguistics and from sociology and ethnology, Levi-Strauss elaborated his theory of structural unity in culture and became the preeminent representative of structural anthropology. La Pensee sauvage, published in French in 1962, was his crowning achievement. Ranging over philosophies, historical periods, and human societies, it challenged the prevailing assumption of the superiority of modern Western culture and sought to explain the unity of human intellection.  Unfortunately titled The Savage Mind when it first published in English in 1966, the original translation nevertheless sparked a fascination with Levi-Strauss's work among generations of Anglophone readers. Wild Thought: A New Translation of \"La Pensee sauvage\" rekindles that spark with a fresh and accessible new translation. Including critical annotations for the contemporary reader, it restores the accuracy and integrity of the book that changed the course of twentieth-century thought, making it an indispensable addition to any philosophical and anthropological library.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56227826303349,"sku":"9780226413082","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226413082_c95abbf2-f8b7-403d-9f63-d77dca1750c1.jpg?v=1786012460"},{"product_id":"9780415253949","title":"Myth and Meaning","description":"In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56288805847413,"sku":"9780415253949","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57688248451445,"sku":"9780415255486","price":103.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780415253949.jpg?v=1792686204"},{"product_id":"9780850363821","title":"Totemism","description":"\"Levi-Strauss continues his assault on the myth of the primitice as savage by turning to the phenomena of totemism an totoemix classification ... to show, contrary to this myth, that primitive thought rests upon a rich and complex conceptual structure.\" –  Commentary","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295100055925,"sku":"9780850363821","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780850363821_91cbbb45-ac33-4c3a-8182-41f551d4befa.jpg?v=1786015673"},{"product_id":"the-jealous-potter","title":"The Jealous Potter","description":"As Levi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, \"signification,\" and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. Levi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers of structuralism. \"Electrifying...A brilliant demonstration of structural analysis in action...Can be read with pleasure and profit by anyone interested in that aspect of self-discovery that comes through knowledge of the universal and timeless myths that live on in all of us.\"--Jonathan Sharp, San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle \"A characteristic tour de force...One remains awed by him.\"--Colin Thubron, Sunday Times \"With all its epistemological depth, the book reads at times like a Simenon or a Lewis Carroll, fusing concise methodology with mastery of style.\"--Bernadette Bucher, American Ethnologist \"[An] engagingly provocative exploration of mythology in the Americas...Always a good read.\"--Choice \"A playful, highly entertaining book, fluently and elegantly translated by Benedicte Chorier.\"--Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, New York Times Book Review","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57466808041845,"sku":"9780226474809","price":80.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780226474809.jpg?v=1785654873"},{"product_id":"whats-in-a-name-2","title":"What's in a Name","description":null,"brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57510129860981,"sku":"9781971559308","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-claude-levi-strauss.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}