Note on the French Edition
List of Illustrations
Introduction by Vincent Debaene
History and method
I. French Sociology
II. In Memory of Malinowski
III. The Work of Edward Westermarck
IV. The Name of the Nambikuara
Individual and society
V. Five Book Reviews
VI. Techniques for Happiness
Reciprocity and hierarchy
VII. War and Trade among the Indians of South America
VIII. The Theory of Power in a Primitive Society
IX. Reciprocity and Hierarchy
X. The Foreign Policy of a Primitive Society
Art
XI. Indian Cosmetics
XII. The Art of the Northwest Coast at the American Museum of Natural History
South American ethnography
XIII. The Social Use of Kinship Terms among Brazilian Indians
XIV. On Dual Organization in South America
XV. The Tupí-Cawahíb
XVI. The Nambicuara
XVII. Tribes of the Right Bank of the Guaporé River
Map
Sources
Notes
Index
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) was one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century. He held the Chair of Social Anthropology at the College de France from 1959 to 1982 and was the author of many books including Tristes Tropiques and Structural Anthropology.