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The savage mind

Claude Lévi-Strauss (Author)
Discusses the significance of totemism among primitive peoples and its interpretation by anthropologists and philosophies
Print Book, English, 1966
The University of Chicago Press ; Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd., Chicago [Illinois], London [England], 1966
xii, 290 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm.
9780226474847, 9780226474854, 9780226474830, 0226474844, 0226474852, 0226474836
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The science of the concrete
The logic of totemic classifications
Systems of transformations
Totem and caste
Categories, elements, species, numbers
Universalization and particularization
The individual as a species
Time regained
History and dialectic
Translation of: La Pensée sauvage
Published in Chicago, Illinois, and London, England