by Claude Lévi-Strauss · Folio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070324132
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«Race et histoire» is the anthropology essay by Claude Lévi-Strauss, published by Folio in paperback (144 pages, in French).
The author examines the diversity of cultures, the role of chance in history and the relativity of progress; he rejects ethnocentrism and racism by maintaining that no civilization is superior and that all contribute to humanity as a whole. The text anticipates principles of structuralism.
The work was originally published in 1952 by UNESCO; this 1987 edition belongs to the Folio Essais collection.
Recommended for readers of anthropology, philosophy and history who want to approach Lévi-Strauss's thought.
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world.
