Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) was one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century.  He held the Chair of Social Anthropology at the College de France from 1959 to 1982 and was the author of many books including Tristes Tropiques and Structural Anthropology.

“This volume makes available the early writings of the great anthropologist and philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss, which together constitute a prehistory of structuralism. It sheds light on his American period, in exile during World War II, a time of great creativity during which he met and was strongly influenced by Roman Jakobson and was introduced to Northwest Coast art – in short, a time of life that was a catalyst for who he would become in his later incarnation as an international intellectual celebrity.”Michael E. Harkin, University of Wyoming

• Note on the French EditionList of IllustrationsIntroduction by Vincent DebaeneHistory and methodI. French SociologyII. In Memory of MalinowskiIII. The Work of Edward WestermarckIV. The Name of the NambikuaraIndividual and societyV. Five Book ReviewsVI. Techniques for HappinessReciprocity and hierarchyVII. War and Trade among the Indians of South AmericaVIII. The Theory of Power in a Primitive SocietyIX. Reciprocity and HierarchyX. The Foreign Policy of a Primitive SocietyArtXI. Indian CosmeticsXII. The Art of the Northwest Coast at the American Museum of Natural HistorySouth American ethnographyXIII. The Social Use of Kinship Terms among Brazilian IndiansXIV. On Dual Organization in South AmericaXV. The Tupí-CawahíbXVI. The NambicuaraXVII. Tribes of the Right Bank of the Guaporé River MapSourcesNotesIndex

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) was one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century.  He held the Chair of Social Anthropology at the College de France from 1959 to 1982 and was the author of many books including Tristes Tropiques and Structural Anthropology.

“This volume makes available the early writings of the great anthropologist and philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss, which together constitute a prehistory of structuralism. It sheds light on his American period, in exile during World War II, a time of great creativity during which he met and was strongly influenced by Roman Jakobson and was introduced to Northwest Coast art – in short, a time of life that was a catalyst for who he would become in his later incarnation as an international intellectual celebrity.”Michael E. Harkin, University of Wyoming

• Note on the French EditionList of IllustrationsIntroduction by Vincent DebaeneHistory and methodI. French SociologyII. In Memory of MalinowskiIII. The Work of Edward WestermarckIV. The Name of the NambikuaraIndividual and societyV. Five Book ReviewsVI. Techniques for HappinessReciprocity and hierarchyVII. War and Trade among the Indians of South AmericaVIII. The Theory of Power in a Primitive SocietyIX. Reciprocity and HierarchyX. The Foreign Policy of a Primitive SocietyArtXI. Indian CosmeticsXII. The Art of the Northwest Coast at the American Museum of Natural HistorySouth American ethnographyXIII. The Social Use of Kinship Terms among Brazilian IndiansXIV. On Dual Organization in South AmericaXV. The Tupí-CawahíbXVI. The NambicuaraXVII. Tribes of the Right Bank of the Guaporé River MapSourcesNotesIndex

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) was one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century.  He held the Chair of Social Anthropology at the College de France from 1959 to 1982 and was the author of many books including Tristes Tropiques and Structural Anthropology.

“This volume makes available the early writings of the great anthropologist and philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss, which together constitute a prehistory of structuralism. It sheds light on his American period, in exile during World War II, a time of great creativity during which he met and was strongly influenced by Roman Jakobson and was introduced to Northwest Coast art – in short, a time of life that was a catalyst for who he would become in his later incarnation as an international intellectual celebrity.”Michael E. Harkin, University of Wyoming

• Note on the French EditionList of IllustrationsIntroduction by Vincent DebaeneHistory and methodI. French SociologyII. In Memory of MalinowskiIII. The Work of Edward WestermarckIV. The Name of the NambikuaraIndividual and societyV. Five Book ReviewsVI. Techniques for HappinessReciprocity and hierarchyVII. War and Trade among the Indians of South AmericaVIII. The Theory of Power in a Primitive SocietyIX. Reciprocity and HierarchyX. The Foreign Policy of a Primitive SocietyArtXI. Indian CosmeticsXII. The Art of the Northwest Coast at the American Museum of Natural HistorySouth American ethnographyXIII. The Social Use of Kinship Terms among Brazilian IndiansXIV. On Dual Organization in South AmericaXV. The Tupí-CawahíbXVI. The NambicuaraXVII. Tribes of the Right Bank of the Guaporé River MapSourcesNotesIndex