Claude Lévi-Strauss

Wild thought

Translated by Tr. by J. Mehlman and J. Leavitt. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2021. (Initially published in 1962)

This is the new translation of La pensée Sauvage (1962) and is the one that should now be read--though the history of the first translation, as summarized in the Translator's introduction, is more than of historical interest as that first translation both established Lévi-Strauss and let to passionate responses, particularly by Geertz.

created on September 03, 2021