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.