Vincent Debaene is associate professor of French at Columbia University. He is the critical editor of the Pleiade edition of the collected works of Claude Levi-Strauss. Justin Izzo is assistant professor of French Studies at Brown University.

"This remarkable and ambitious work expertly takes both a long-view and close-ups of the main currents of twentieth-century French anthropological research and thinking. Travel writing, anthropology's relation to surrealism, the dissolution of science-literature unity in belles-lettres, and structuralism into post-structuralism are all systematically addressed with great insights, great turns of phrase (caught well in translation), and fresh interpretations." (George Marcus, University of California, Irvine)"

Vincent Debaene is associate professor of French at Columbia University. He is the critical editor of the Pleiade edition of the collected works of Claude Levi-Strauss. Justin Izzo is assistant professor of French Studies at Brown University.

"This remarkable and ambitious work expertly takes both a long-view and close-ups of the main currents of twentieth-century French anthropological research and thinking. Travel writing, anthropology's relation to surrealism, the dissolution of science-literature unity in belles-lettres, and structuralism into post-structuralism are all systematically addressed with great insights, great turns of phrase (caught well in translation), and fresh interpretations." (George Marcus, University of California, Irvine)"