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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the anthropologist Claude ³¢Ã©±¹¾±-³§³Ù°ù²¹³Ü²õ²õ. One of twentieth-century France's most celebrated intellectuals, ³¢Ã©±¹¾±-³§³Ù°ù²¹³Ü²õ²õ attempted to show in his work that thought processes were a feature universal to humans, whether they lived in tribal rainforest societies or in the rich intellectual life of Paris. During the 1930s he studied native Brazilian tribes in the Amazonian jungle, but for most of his long career he preferred the study to the field. He was the leading exponent of structuralism, a school of thought which was influential for decades, and was involved in a famous debate with his friend Jean-Paul Sartre, who resisted many of his ideas. His books about the nature of myth, human thought and kinship are now seen as some of the most important anthropological texts written in the twentieth century.
With:
Adam Kuper
Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Boston University
Christina Howells
Professor of French at Oxford University
Vincent Debaene
Associate Professor of French Literature at Columbia University
Producer: Thomas Morris.
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
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READING LIST:
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Edmund Leach, Claude ³¢Ã©±¹¾±-³§³Ù°ù²¹³Ü²õ²õ (University of Chicago Press, 1989)
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Claude ³¢Ã©±¹¾±-³§³Ù°ù²¹³Ü²õ²õ, Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture (Schocken Books, 1995)
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Claude ³¢Ã©±¹¾±-³§³Ù°ù²¹³Ü²õ²õ, Structural Anthropology (Basic Books, 1974)
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Claude ³¢Ã©±¹¾±-³§³Ù°ù²¹³Ü²õ²õ, The Savage Mind (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994)
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Claude ³¢Ã©±¹¾±-³§³Ù°ù²¹³Ü²õ²õ, Tristes Tropiques (Penguin Books, 1992)
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Claude ³¢Ã©±¹¾±-³§³Ù°ù²¹³Ü²õ²õ and Didier Eribon, Conversations with Claude ³¢Ã©±¹¾±-³§³Ù°ù²¹³Ü²õ²õ (University of Chicago Press, 1991)
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Patrick Wilcken, Claude ³¢Ã©±¹¾±-³§³Ù°ù²¹³Ü²õ²õ: The Father of Modern Anthropology (Penguin Books, 2012)
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Boris Wiseman, Introducing ³¢Ã©±¹¾±-³§³Ù°ù²¹³Ü²õ²õ and Structural Anthropology (Icon Books Ltd, 2000)
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Boris Wiseman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to ³¢Ã©±¹¾±-³§³Ù°ù²¹³Ü²õ²õ (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Melvyn Bragg |
Interviewed Guest | Adam Kuper |
Interviewed Guest | Christina Howells |
Interviewed Guest | Vincent Debaene |
Producer | Thomas Morris |
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