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Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics (Paperback)
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Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics (Paperback)
Series: Ideas in Context
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In a wide-ranging 2007 study of Claude Levi-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
Levi-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 Levi-Strauss's aesthetic theory forms an
integral part of his approach to Amerindian masks, body decoration
and mythology. He reveals the significance of Levi-Strauss's
anthropological analysis of an 'untamed' mode of thinking (pensee
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.
Levi-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.
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