{"product_id":"levi-strauss-a-biography-hardback-9781509511983","title":"Lévi-Strauss; A Biography (Hardback) 9781509511983","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLévi-Strauss\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Biography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEmmanuelle Loyer (Author), Ninon Vinsonneau (Translated by), Jonathan Magidoff (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509511983, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 October 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e740 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 16 x 6.4 cm, 1.383 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Emmanuelle Loyer has produced a meticulously researched, intelligent and sensitive biography worthy of her subject, one of the greatest Francophone intellectuals of the twentieth century. Critical yet generous, her portrait of Claude Lévi-Strauss rings true and comes alive on the page.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMichael Harkin, University of Wyoming\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The inspiration that continues to spring forth from the work of Lévi-Strauss is a mystery to many anthropologists. He has told us of the many influences on his work, and commentators have argued for yet others, but they don't really account for his extraordinary originality and independence. Emmanuelle Loyer's thorough account of his life and work may help us resolve this wonderful puzzle.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMaurice Bloch, London School of Economics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is the first true biography of one of the greatest French intellectuals of the twentieth century, who lived to be 100 years old and who finished his life covered in glory and honours. Emmanuelle Loyer's book is a marvel of intelligence that holds the reader's attention from beginning to end.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eÉlisabeth Roudinesco, \u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Loyer's biography offers an unprecedentedly rich sense of the man.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Loyer offers a vivid portrait of the anthropologist and his time. But she also invites us to imagine how Lévi-Strauss might endure as a thinker for our century, as much for his own.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"deeply researched . . . engaging and engaged\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Emanuelle Loyer’s 744 page biography has achieved the seemingly impossible. This detailed, deeply researched, and relatively accessible volume makes it difficult to imagine that anyone will attempt a more exhaustive biography in the future. If they did, I am not sure what they could add to Loyer’s account. While many aspects of Lévi-Strauss’s life still await specialized treatment, I am confident that this book will become the definitive one-volume biography of Lévi-Strauss for the foreseeable future.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—History of Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcademic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete – Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view ourselves and the world around us. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this award-winning biography, historian Emmanuelle Loyer recounts Lévi-Strauss’s childhood in an assimilated Jewish household, his promising student years as well as his first forays into political and intellectual movements. As a young professor, Lévi-Strauss left Paris in 1935 for São Paulo to teach sociology. His rugged expeditions into the Brazilian hinterland, where he discovered the Amerindian Other, made him into an anthropologist. The racial laws of the Vichy regime would force him to leave France yet again, this time for the USA in 1941, where he became Professor Claude L. Strauss – to avoid confusion with the jeans manufacturer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLévi-Strauss’s return to France, after the war, ushered in the period during which he produced his greatest works: several decades of intense labour in which he reinvented anthropology, establishing it as a discipline that offered a new view on the world. In 1955, \u003ci\u003eTristes Tropiques\u003c\/i\u003e offered indisputable proof of this the world over. During those years, Lévi-Strauss became something of a French national monument, as well as a celebrity intellectual of global renown. But he always claimed his perspective was a ‘view from afar’, enabling him to deliver incisive and subversive diagnoses of our waning modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLoyer’s outstanding biography tells the story of a true intellectual adventurer whose unforgettable voice invites us to rethink questions of the human and the meaning of progress. She portrays Lévi-Strauss less as a modern than as our own great and disquieted contemporary.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword Adam Kuper\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction. The Worlds of Claude Lévi-Strauss\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Yesterday's Worlds (É-1935)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 The Name of the Father\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Revelations (1908-1924)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Revolutions (1924-1931): Politics vs. Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Redemption: Anthropology (1931-1935)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 The Enigma of the World\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II New Worlds (1935-1947)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 France in São Paulo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 In the Heart of Brazil\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Massimo Lévi with the Nambikwara\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Crisis (1939-1941)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 A Frenchman in New York City: Exile and Intellectual Invention (1941-1944)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 Structuralism Ð the American Years\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III The Old World (1947-1971)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 The Ghosts of Marcel Mauss\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Manhood\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 The Confessions of Claude Lévi-Strauss\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15 Structuralist Crystallization (1958-1962)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16 The Manufacture of Science\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 17 The Scholarly Life\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 18 The Politics of Discretion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV The World (1971-2009)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 19 Immortal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 20 Metamorphoses\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 21 Claude Lévi-Strauss, our Contemporary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks by Lévi-Strauss\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchives consulted\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations of Works by Lévi-Strauss\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllustration credits\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Archaeology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Archaeology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Archaeology%20%5BHD%5D%22\"\u003eHD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52463012577560,"sku":"9781509511983","price":15.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509511983.jpg?v=1785545147","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/levi-strauss-a-biography-hardback-9781509511983","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}