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Leach unpacks Lévi-Strausss dense and dazzling analyses of myth, kinship, and culture exploring how he sought to uncover the hidden structures that underlie all forms of human thought. Drawing connections between anthropology, linguistics, and psychology, Lévi-Strauss argued that beneath the diversity of human societies lies a shared mental architecture: the binary logic of the human mind.
Balancing admiration with critique, Leach illuminates both the brilliance and the limitations of Lévi-Strausss structuralism, its relationship to Freud and Marx, and its enduring impact on philosophy, literature, and cultural studies. Written with characteristic clarity and verve, the book makes one of the centurys most complex intellectual systems accessible to general readers.
Critical Reception:
He conveys, with un-English glee, the marvellous sense of intellectual excitement that Lévi-Strauss can generate. Observer
The newcomer to Lévi-Strauss or to structural anthropology will find this book an admirable key to a convoluted mind and a complicated topic. New Society
