Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World

by Maurice Olender (Author), Maurice Olender (Author), Claude Lévi-Strauss (Author), Jane Marie Todd (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2013

  $26.81

  This first English translation of lectures Claude Levi-Strauss delivered in Tokyo in 1986 synthesizes his ideas about structural anthropology, critiques his earlier writings on civilization, and assesses the dilemmas of cultural and moral relativism, including economic inequality, religious fundamentalism, and genetic and reproductive engineering.