书名: Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics (Ideas in Context)
作者: Boris Wiseman (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (December 10, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0521875293
ISBN-13: 978-0521875295
Book Description
In 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.
“Wiseman’s astonishingly thorough, sympathetic, and comprehensive study is a most persuasive tribute to the work of anthropology’s towering centenarian.” -- Museum Anthropology Review
About the Author
Boris Wiseman is Lecturer in French at the University of Durham.
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作者: Boris Wiseman (Author)
出版社: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (December 10, 2007)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0521875293
ISBN-13: 978-0521875295
Book Description
In 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.
- Applies Lévi-Strauss's ideas to an understanding of both ethnographic and Western art
- Includes succinct explanations of many of Lévi-Strauss's key ideas and theories
- Features an extensive bibliography of Lévi-Strauss's works in English and in French
“Wiseman’s astonishingly thorough, sympathetic, and comprehensive study is a most persuasive tribute to the work of anthropology’s towering centenarian.” -- Museum Anthropology Review
About the Author
Boris Wiseman is Lecturer in French at the University of Durham.
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