Lévi-Strauss, Claude

The other face of the moon / Claude Levi-Strauss. foreword by Junzo Kawada ; translated by Jane Marie Todd - Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2013. - xiii, 166 p. ; 19 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Gathering all of Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Japan, this sustained meditation follows his dictum that to understand one's own culture, one must see it from another's point of view. For Levi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. This English translation presents one of France's most public figures at his most personal.

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Ethnology--Japan

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