Claude levi strauss biography pdf download

98 | JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH SPRING 2020 Lévi-Strauss: A Biography. Emmanuelle Loyer. Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2018, 740 pp. $45.00, cloth.

Claude levi strauss biography pdf download

ISBN 978-1-509-51198-3. This biography of Lévi-Strauss is a comprehensive, perhaps exhaustive, account of his life and thought over a career spanning many decades. The author, Loyer, was fortunate to have access to 216 boxes of Lévi-Strauss’s personal archives deposited at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, supplemented by research in other archives and personal interviews with many people who knew him.

One thing that is clear, and perhaps contributes to his distinctive intellectual achievements, is his marginal position in so many contexts: from his background as an Alsatian Jew (though he was not religious), as a youthful Marxist, and as having pursued teaching and research in Brazil (rather than a career in France), and spending the years of the Second World War in the Unit