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The Savage Mind
Format: Book
Publication Date: Nov 30, 1965
Publisher: [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1966]
Place of Publication: Chicago
Sources ID: 34831
Notes: xii, 290 p. illus., port. 23 cm.
Visibility: Public (group default)
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"No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting intellectual exercise in which dialectic, wit, and imagination combine to stimulate and provoke at every page."—Edmund Leach, Man"Lévi-Strauss’s books are tough: very scholarly, very dense, very rapid in argument. But once you have mastered him, human history can never be the same, nor indeed can one’s view of contemporary society. And his latest book, The Savage Mind, is his most comprehensive and certainly his most profound. Everyone interested in the history of ideas must read it; everyone interested in human institutions should read it."—J. H. Plumb, Saturday Review