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Claude levi-strauss the savage mind summary.
The Savage Mind
1962 book by Claude Lévi-Strauss
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| Author | Claude Lévi-Strauss |
|---|---|
| Original title | La Pensée sauvage |
| Translator | Anonymous |
| Language | French |
| Subjects | Anthropology Structuralism |
| Publisher | Librairie Plon (Paris) |
Publication date | 1962 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1966 |
| Media type | |
The Savage Mind (French: La Pensée sauvage), also translated as Wild Thought, is a 1962 work of structural anthropology by the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Summary
"The Savage Mind"
Lévi-Strauss makes clear that "la pensée sauvage" refers not to the discrete mind of any particular type of human, but rather to 'untamed' human thought: "In this book it is neither the mind of savages nor that of primitive or archaic humanity, but rather mind in its untamed state as distinct from mind cultivated or domesticated for the purpose of yielding a return."