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In a wide-ranging 2007 study of Claude L vi-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 L vi-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 L vi-Strauss's aesthetic theory forms an integral part of his approach to Amerindian masks, body decoration and mythology. He reveals the significance of L vi-Strauss's anthropological analysis of an 'untamed' mode of thinking (pens e 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. L vi-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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521123011
ISBN13:9780521123013
Release Date:November 2009
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:0.86 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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