by Claude Lévi-Strauss · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789583800542
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«El pensamiento salvaje» is the anthropology essay by Claude Lévi-Strauss, published by Fondo de Cultura Económica in paperback (413 pages, in Spanish).
A classic of contemporary anthropology in which Claude Lévi-Strauss examines, from a critical perspective, the myths, rites, beliefs and creations of human beings and their persistence over millennia. It pays special attention to totemism and the anthropology of religion to understand social thought.
It belongs to the Breviarios collection of Fondo de Cultura Económica; this edition is from 1997.
For students and readers interested in anthropology, philosophy, religion and the study of traditional societies.
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world.
