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Lévi-Strauss, anthropology and aesthetics /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Lévi-Strauss, anthropology and aesthetics // Boris Wiseman.
remainder title:	Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, & Aesthetics
Author:	Wiseman, Boris,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Structural anthropology - Philosophy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511585883
ISBN:	9780511585883 (ebook)

Lévi-Strauss, anthropology and aesthetics /
Wiseman, Boris,

Lévi-Strauss, anthropology and aesthetics /Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, & AestheticsBoris Wiseman. - 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Ideas in context ;85. - Ideas in context ;75..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction: ethno-aesthetics -- 1. The reconciliation -- 2. Art and the logic of sensible qualities -- 3. The work of art as a system of signs -- 4. Structuralism, symbolist poetics and abstract art -- 5. The anthropologist as art critic -- 6. Nature, culture, chance -- 7. From myth to music -- 8. Lévi-Strauss's mytho-poem -- Conclusion: between concept and metaphor.

In a wide-ranging 2007 study of Claude Lévi-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 Lévi-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 Lévi-Strauss's aesthetic theory forms an integral part of his approach to Amerindian masks, body decoration and mythology. He reveals the significance of Lévi-Strauss's anthropological analysis of an 'untamed' mode of thinking (pensée 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. Lévi-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.

ISBN: 9780511585883 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

1443595
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
--Philosophy.Subjects--Topical Terms:

798994
Structural anthropology
--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: GN362 / .W58 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 111.85

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