{"product_id":"the-other-face-of-the-claude-levi-strauss-9780674072923","title":"Other Face of the Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003eGathering for the first time all of Claude L騅i-Strauss's writings on Japanese civilization, \u003ci\u003eThe Other Face of the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist's dictum that to understand one's own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExposure to Japanese art was influential in L騅i-Strauss's early intellectual growth, and between 1977 and 1988 he visited the country five times. The essays, lectures, and interviews of this volume, written between 1979 and 2001, are the product of these journeys. They investigate an astonishing range of subjects--among them Japan's founding myths, Noh and Kabuki theater, the distinctiveness of the Japanese musical scale, the artisanship of Jomon pottery, and the relationship between Japanese graphic arts and cuisine. For L騅i-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. Molded in the ancient past by Chinese influences, it had more recently incorporated much from Europe and the United States. But the substance of these borrowings was so carefully assimilated that Japanese culture never lost its specificity. As though viewed from the hidden side of the moon, Asia, Europe, and America all find, in Japan, images of themselves profoundly transformed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs in L騅i-Strauss's classic ethnography \u003ci\u003eTristes Tropiques, \u003c\/i\u003e this new English translation presents the voice of one of France's most public intellectuals at its most personal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claude L騅i-Strauss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674072928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674072923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 4.67w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/18\/2013","brand":"Claude L騅i-Strauss","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43992268898559,"sku":"9780674072923","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5c091014-0f53-4f27-84bb-e296483fe401.jpg?v=1683315066","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-other-face-of-the-claude-levi-strauss-9780674072923","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}