by Françoise Héritier · AGUILAR · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788403012547
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In 'The Salt of Life,' Françoise Héritier constructs an enumerative discourse of happy moments that transcend individual experience, drawing an alternative universe to crisis and pessimism. Through letters to a friend, the author reflects on the small pleasures and daily joys that give meaning to existence. This book invites us to find happiness in the details and to value the positive moments that life offers us.
Françoise Héritier was a French anthropologist, ethnologist, and feminist. She was the successor to Claude Lévi-Strauss to hold the chair of anthropology at the Collège de France, and held the inaugural chair of Comparative Study of African Societies from 1983. Her work dealt mainly with the theory of alliances and on the prohibition of incest, both theories based on the notion of exchange of women. In addition to Lévi-Strauss, she was also influenced by Alfred Radcliffe-Brown.
