From Montaigne to Montaigne-Lévi-Strauss, Claude Claude Lévi-Str

From Montaigne to MontaigneAuthor(s): Claude Lvi-Strauss, Emmanuel Dsveaux, Robert Bononno, Peter Skafish\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517906382, 978-1517906382\nSynopsis\nTwo previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologists intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne\n\n In January 1937, between the two ethnographic trips he would describe in Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lvi-Strauss gave a talk to the Confdration gnrale du travail in Paris. Only recently discovered in the archives of the Bibliothque national de France, this lecture, Ethnography: The Revolutionary Science, discussed the French essayist Michel de Montaigne, to whom Lvi-Strauss would return in remarks delivered more than a half-century later, in the spring of 1992. Bracketing the career of one of the most celebrated anthropologists of the twentieth century, th.