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Levi-Strauss - A Biography (Hardcover)
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Levi-Strauss - A Biography (Hardcover)
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Academic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete - Claude
Levi-Strauss (1908-2009) not only transformed his academic
discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view
ourselves and the world around us. In this award-winning biography,
historian Emmanuelle Loyer recounts Levi-Strauss's childhood in an
assimilated Jewish household, his promising student years as well
as his first forays into political and intellectual movements. As a
young professor, Levi-Strauss left Paris in 1935 for Sao Paulo to
teach sociology. His rugged expeditions into the Brazilian
hinterland, where he discovered the Amerindian Other, made him into
an anthropologist. The racial laws of the Vichy regime would force
him to leave France yet again, this time for the USA in 1941, where
he became Professor Claude L. Strauss - to avoid confusion with the
jeans manufacturer. Levi-Strauss's return to France, after the war,
ushered in the period during which he produced his greatest works:
several decades of intense labour in which he reinvented
anthropology, establishing it as a discipline that offered a new
view on the world. In 1955, Tristes Tropiques offered indisputable
proof of this the world over. During those years, Levi-Strauss
became something of a French national monument, as well as a
celebrity intellectual of global renown. But he always claimed his
perspective was a 'view from afar', enabling him to deliver
incisive and subversive diagnoses of our waning modernity. Loyer's
outstanding biography tells the story of a true intellectual
adventurer whose unforgettable voice invites us to rethink
questions of the human and the meaning of progress. She portrays
Levi-Strauss less as a modern than as our own great and disquieted
contemporary.
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