Sad Tropics - Sad Tropics

His major works include "The Fundamental Structures of Kinship" (1949), which sees the reciprocal code of the exchange of women in the marriage system, "The Savage Mind" and "Totemism Today" (both 1962), which clarify the logical structure of "primitive classification" and relativize the epistemology of European anthropology, and the four-volume magnum opus "Mythology" (1964-1971), which includes the theory on "The Culinary Triangle" and "Ritual and Myth." His other works include "Structural Anthropology" (2 volumes, 1958, 1973), which could be considered a collection of methodologies, and "Tristes tropiques" (1955), an early introspective ethnography that gained a wide readership. In particular, "Sad Tropics" caused a great stir as a reflection on civilization reminiscent of Rousseau on the lost connection between humans and nature, while "Savage Thought" made clear that the "savage thinking" of savages, as opposed to civilized "cultivated thinking," is itself a "concrete science" based on systematic sensory thinking, encouraging fundamental reflection on the Western-centered modern thought system and inspiring the development of "structuralist" thought.

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…　主著には，女性を交換する互酬のコードを婚姻体系にみる《親族の基本構造Les structures élémentaires de la parenté》(1949)，〈未開分類〉の論理構造を明らかにしてヨーロッパ人類学の認識論を相対化した《野生の思考La pensée sauvage》《今日のトーテミスム》(ともに1962)，また〈料理の三角形〉や〈儀礼と神話〉論を含む大作《神話学Mythologiques》4巻(1964‐71)などがある。ほかにも方法論集ともいうべき《構造人類学》2巻(1958,73)や，広い読者層を獲得した初期の内省的民族誌《悲しき熱帯Tristes tropiques》(1955)がある。とくに《悲しき熱帯》は，失われた人間と自然との結びつきをめぐるルソーを思わせる文明論的省察として大きな反響を呼び，また《野生の思考》は，文明化した〈栽培思考〉に対して，未開人にみられる〈野生の思考〉がそれ自体組織的な感性的思考による〈具体の科学〉であることを明らかにし，西欧中心の近代的思考体系への根底的反省を促して〈構造主義〉思想の展開を触発した。…

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