by Claude Lévi-Strauss · Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782869170308
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«La voie des masques» is the anthropological essay by Claude Lévi-Strauss, published by Pocket in paperback (222 pages, in French).
Starting from astonishment at the strangeness and plastic force of the indigenous masks of the northwest coast, Lévi-Strauss analyzes their aesthetic code and relates them to the myths and customs of the peoples who create them. The work shows that these pieces form a language whose oppositions express the differences between tribes, and leads to a reflection on the notion of style and the aesthetics of the plastic arts.
Revised, enlarged and expanded edition with «Trois Excursions», in the Agora collection.
For readers interested in structuralist anthropology and indigenous art of the northwest coast.
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.
