Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics (Ideas in Context)- .

Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and AestheticsAuthor(s): Boris Wiseman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521875295, 978-0521875295\nSynopsis\nIn a wide-ranging 2007 study of Claude Lvi-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 Lvi-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 Lvi-Strauss's aesthetic theory forms an integral part of his approach to Amerindian masks, body decoration and mythology. He reveals the significance of Lvi-Strauss's anthropological analysis of an 'untamed' mode of thinking (pense sauvage) at work in totemism, classification and myth-making for his conception of .