Anthropologie structurale deux explained

The Anthropologie structurale deux (also known by the title of Structural Anthropology) is a collection of texts by Claude Lévi-Strauss that was first published in 1973, the year Lévi-Strauss was elected to the Académie française.^[1] The texts are in turn a result of an earlier collection of texts, Anthropologie structurale, that he had published in 1958.

The work is considered to be the origin of the idea of structural anthropology.^[2]

Table of Contents

Perspective Views

• The Scope of Anthropology
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Founder of the Sciences of Man
• What Ethnology owes to Durkheim
• The Work of the Bureau of American Ethnology and Its Lessons
• Comparative Religions of Nonliterate Peoples

Social Organization

• The Meaning and Use of the Notion of Model
• Reflections on the Atom of Kinship

Mythology and Ritual

• Structure and Form: Reflections on a Work by Vladimir Propp
• The Story of Asdiwal
• Four Winnebago Myths
• The Sex of the Sun and Moon
• Mushrooms in Culture: Apropos of a Book by R.G. Wasson
• Relations of Symmetry Between Rituals and Myths of Neighboring Peoples
• How Myths Die

Humanism and the Humanities

• Answers to Some Investigations
• Scientific Criteria in the Social and Human Disciplines
• Cultural Discontinuity and Economic and Social Development
• Race and History

Notes and References

1. Book: Deliège, Robert. Introduction À L'anthropologie Structurale: Lévi-Strauss Aujourd'hui. 2004. Berg Publishers. 1859738389.
   - Book: Clark, Elizabeth. History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn. 2004. Harvard University Press. 0674029585. 205.
2. Book: Hénaff, Marcel. Claude Lévi-Strauss and the Making of Structural Anthropology. 1998. University of Minnesota Press. 0816627614.
   - Rossi. Ino. Review: Anthropologie structurale deux by Claude Lévi-Strauss. American Anthropologist. March 1976. 78. 1. 145. 675086. 10.1525/aa.1976.78.1.02a00610.
   - Beidelman. T.O.. Review: Anthropologie structurale deux by Claude Lévi-Strauss. Anthropos. 1974. 69. 5/6. 960–961. 40458655.
   - Bloch. Maurice. Review: Anthropologie Structurale Deux. by Claude Levi-Strauss. Man. June 1975. 10. 2. 323–325. 10.2307/2800515. 2800515.