Introducing Levi-Strauss - Boris Wiseman

Introducing Lvi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Lvi-Strauss (1908-2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of Lvi-Strauss' thought, from his early work on the function of the incest taboo to initiate an exchange of women between groups, to his identification of a timeless "wild" or "primitive" mode of thinking - a pense sauvage - behind the processes of human culture. Accessibly written by Boris Wiseman and beautifully illustrated by Judy Groves, Introducing Lvi-Strauss also explores the major contribution that Lvi-Strauss made to contemporary aesthetic history - his work on American-Indian mythology provides a key insight into the way in which art itself comes into being.This is an essential introduction to a key thinker.

Dr Wiseman studied in London at King's College and the London School of Economics and in Paris at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and the cole Normale Suprieure. He had been a lecturer in the French Department at Durham University since 1997 and is currently at the University of Copenhagen.

Judy Groves is a painter, graphic designer and illustrator. She has illustrated numerous Introducing titles.