{"product_id":"levi-strauss-anthropology-and-aesthetics-ideas-in-context-series-number-85-0521875293","title":"Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics (Ideas in Context, Series Number 85)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521875293\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Wiseman, Boris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51944704049440,"sku":"NEW0521875293","price":172.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/levi-strauss-anthropology-and-aesthetics-ideas-in-context-series-number-85-0521875293","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}