Claude Levi-Strauss - Structural Anthropology & other works (6 books)

CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS (1908-2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer and Franz Boas, the "father of modern anthropology". His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. He was honored by universities throughout the world and held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France (1959-1982), and was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973.

He argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere. These observations culminated in his famous book TRISTES TROPIQUES, which positioned him as one of the central figures in the structuralist school of thought, where his ideas reached into many fields in the humanities, as well as sociology and philosophy.


All the following books are in PDF format (STRUCTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY is also in ePUB):

* INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK OF MARCEL MAUSS (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987). Translated by Felicity Baker.

* THE SAVAGE MIND (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966). Translated by Julian Pitt-Rivers and Ernest Gellner.

* THE SCOPE OF ANTHROPOLOGY (Jonathan Cape, 1967). Translated by Sherry Ortner Paul and Robert A. Paul.

* STRUCTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (Basic Books, 1963). Translated by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf. -- PDF + ePUB

* TOTEMISM (Merlin Press, 1964). Translated by Rodney Needham.

* TRISTES TROPIQUES (Criterion, 1961). Translated by John Russell.

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NOTE: A selection of 20 or so journal articles by Lévi-Strauss can be found here.