A Salute to Claude Levi-Strauss born Nov. 28, 1908   ** later note: sadly he passed away on Oct. 30, 2009 **   This month the College of New Caledonia Library salutes Claude Levi-Strauss on his 100th birthday Introduction Display Quotes Contest (Nov.2008) Bibliography

I was inspired by Levi-Strauss, as an undergraduate, through his studies on kinship. I had a professor who specalised in Australian Aborigines, who have one of the most complex kinship systems in the world (the system of how people are related to each other), while at the same time as having very simple technology. That course, that professor, and that theorist (among some others) have led me to a fulfilling, life-enhancing career in anthropology.

 

For me, what makes Lévi-Srauss so fascinating, intellectually, are his many ideas, which are ultimately invigorating and stimulating.

 

A professor and mentor of mine once said (in answering the question about aliens creating numerous phenomena, such as the pyramids): "Not only do these ideas insult my intelligence, they insult my humanity". Lévi-Strauss has shown the universality of [human ways of thinking?], thus humanising us all.

 

He has said, in reference to plant species (as classified and in relation to totemism): 'Not only are [they] good to eat, but [they] are good to think with'.

 

Lévi-Strauss, with his colossal contributions, remains good to think with.

 

In his career, Claude Lévi-Strauss, as an anthropologist, has also influenced art history, psychology, musicology, philosophy, literary criticism, linguistics, religious studies, folklore studies, First Nations' studies, sociology, material culture studies, art and the way we think.

Patti Peach, B.A., M.Sc., Ph.D.

Anthropologist/Instructor

College of New Caledonia

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Bibliography

A list of books by and about Claude Levi-Strauss, available in the College of New Caledonia Library (Call numbers in brackets)

• Anthropology: ancestors and heirs, edited by Stanley Diamond. Chapter 10. The Netherlands: structuralism before Levi-Strauss, by Patrick Edward de Josselin de Jong (GN 29 .A66)
• Claude Lévi-Strauss, by Edmund Leach (GN 21 .L4 L42 1989)
• Claude Lévi-Strauss, the bearer of ashes, by David Pace (GN 21 .L4 P23 1983)
• Comparative sociology of the family: readings, compiled by Helga Jacobson. 3. The family, by Claude Levi-Strauss. (HQ 518 .C656 1983)
• Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss, by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Didier Eribon ; translated by Paula Wissing (GN 21 .L4 A513 1991)
• The Elementary structures of kinship, by Claude Levi-Strauss ; translated from the French by James Harle Bell, John Richard von Sturmer, and Rodney Needham, editor. (GN 480 .L413 1969)
• Elementary structures reconsidered: Lévi-Strauss on kinship, by Francis Korn. (GN 480 .K67)
• Encyclopedia of anthropology, ed. by H. James Birx. Vol. 3. Biography: Levi-Strauss. (REF GN 11 .E63 2006 V.3)
• Encyclopedia of social theory, editor George Ritzer. Vol. 2: Levi-Strauss. (REF HM 425 .E47 2005)
• The foundations of structuralism: a critique of Lévi-Strauss and the structuralist movement, by Simon Clarke. (B 841.4 .C56 1981)
• From honey to ashes, by Claude Levi-Strauss ; translated from the French by John and Doreen Weightman. (F 2230.1 .F6 L413 1973)
• The interpretation of cultures; selected essays, compiled by Clifford Geertz. Part. 4: 13. The cerebral savage: on the work of Claude Levi-Strauss. (GN 315 .G36)
• The jealous potter, by Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated by Bénédicte Chorier. (E 59 .R38 L6313 1988)
• Lévi-Strauss for beginners, by Boris Wiseman and Judy Groves (GN 315 .L456 1997)
• Literary theory: a guide for the perplexed, by Mary Klages. [Chapter 3]. Structuralism: Claude Levi-Strauss and 'the structural study of myth' (PN 81 .K53 2006)
• Man the hunter, edited by Richard B. Lee and Irven DeVore, with the assistance of Jill Nash. No. 36. The concept of primitiveness, by Claude Levi-Strauss. (GN 422 .S9 1966)
• Myth and cosmos: readings in mythology and symbolism, edited by John Middleton. [No. 3]. Four Winnebago myths , by Claude Levi-Strauss. (BL 313 .M48 1977)
• Myth and language, by Albert Cook. (BL 304 .C66)
• Myth and meaning [sound recording], with Claude Levi-Strauss (BL 304 .M98 Cass.)
• Myths of male dominance: collected articles on women cross-culturally, by Eleanor Burke Leacock. Part 3 No.12. The changing family and Levi-Strauss, or whatever happened to Fathers? (GN 479.7 .L4 1981)
• The ordeal of civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish struggle with modernity, by John Murray Cuddihy. (DS 143 .C75)
• Peoples and cultures of native South America: an anthropological reader, edited with introd. by Daniel R. Gross. Part 3. No.15. Social structures of Central and Eastern Brazil, by Claude Levi-Strauss. (F 2229 .G76 1973)
• Psychological anthropology, editor Thomas R. Williams. Part 1: 3. The archaic illusion: a re-examination of Levi-Strauss' view of the developing child, by Judith K. Brown. (GN 502 .I57 1973)
• The Quest for mind: Piaget, Lévi-Strauss, and the structuralist movement, by Howard Gardner. (B 841.4 .G37 1973)
• The Raw and the cooked, by Claude Levi-Strauss ; translated from the French by John and Doreen Weightman. (BL 304 .L4813 1969)
• Reader in comparative religion: an anthropological approach, [edited by] William A. Lessa, Evon Z. Vogt ; with the assistance of John M. Watanabe. Chapter 3. The Interpretation of Symbolism: The Bear and the Barber, by Levi-Strauss. (BL 80.2 .L44 1979)
• Rethinking kinship and marriage, edited by Rodney Needham. [References to Levi-Strauss in] Part 5. A question of preferences: the Iatmul case, by Francis Korn [and] Part 7. Some problems concerning the Wik-mungkan, by David McKnight. (GN 480 .R43 1971)
• Ritual, play, and performance: readings in the social sciences/theatre, edited by Richard Schechner and Mady Schuman. [Article 8]. The science of the concrete, by Claude Levi-Strauss. (PN 2049 .R5)
• Saudades do Brasil: a photographic memoir, by Claude Levi-Strauss ; translated from the French by Sylvia Modelski. (F 2515 .L48913 1995)
• The savage mind, by Claude Levi-Strauss. (GN 451 .L3813)
• Structural anthropology, by Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated from the French by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf. Anchor Books ed. (GN 315 .L453 1967)
• Structural anthropology, by Claude Levi-Strauss ; translated from the French by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf. Basic Books ed. (GN 315 .L453 1963-76 V.1-2)
• A Structural study of autobiography: Proust, Leiris, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, by Jeffrey Mehlman. (PQ 771 .M4)
• Structuralist analysis in contemporary social thought: a comparison of the theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Louis Althusser, by Miriam Glucksmann. (HM 24 .G563 1974)
• The Structuralists: from Marx to Levi-Strauss, edited with an introd. by Richard T. de George and Fernande M. de George. (B 841.4 .S87 1972)
• Symbolic anthropology: a reader in the study of symbols and meanings, edited by Janet L. Dolgin, David S. Kemnitzer, and David M. Schneider. Part 2: Art. Section 6. Levi-Strauss, literarily, by James Boon. (GN 452.5 .S95)
• Totemism, by Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated from the French by Rodney Needham. (GN 491 .L413 1963)
• The Translation of culture: essays to E. E. Evans-Pritchard, edited by T. O. Beidelman. 7. Rapports de symetrie entre et myths de peoples voisins, by Claude Levi-Strauss. (GN 325 .T7 1971)
• Tristes tropiques, by Claude Levi-Strauss ; translated from the French by John and Doreen Weightman. (F 2520 .L4813)
• Twentieth-century French thought: from Bergson to Lévi-Strauss, by Joseph Chiari. (B 2421 .C45 1975)
• Understanding and applying medical anthropology, [compiled by] Peter J. Brown. Part 6. No. 14. The sorcerer and his magic, by Claude Levi-Strauss. (GN 296 .U54 1998)
• The View from afar, by Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated by Joachim Neugroschel and Phoebe Hoss. (GN 362 .L47413 1985)
• The Way of the masks, by Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated from the French by Sylvia Modelski (E 78 .N78 L4513 1982)