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Structural Anthropology Zero (Paperback)
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This volume of Levi-Strauss's writings from 1941 to 1947 bears
witness to a period of his work which is often overlooked but which
was the crucible for the structural anthropology that he would go
on to develop in the years that followed. Like many European Jewish
intellectuals, Levi-Strauss had sought refuge in New York while the
Nazis overran and occupied much of Europe. He had already been
introduced to Jakobson and structural linguistics but he had not
yet laid out an agenda for structuralism, which he would do in the
1950s and 60s. At the same time, these American years were the time
when Levi-Strauss would learn of some of the world's most
devastating historical catastrophes - the genocide of the
indigenous American peoples and of European Jews. From the
beginning of the 1950s, Levi-Strauss's anthropology tacitly bears
the heavy weight of the memory and possibility of the Shoah. To
speak of 'structural anthropology zero' is therefore to refer to
the source of a way of thinking which turned our conception of the
human on its head. But this prequel to Structural Anthropology also
underlines the sense of a tabula rasa which animated its author at
the end of the war as well as the project - shared with others - of
a civilizational rebirth on novel grounds. Published here in
English for the first time, this volume of Levi-Strauss's texts
from the 1940s will be of great interest to students and scholars
in anthropology, sociology and the social sciences generally.
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