Claude LÉvi-Strauss (1908–2009) was a French anthropologist and
ethnologist who was foundational in the development of
structuralism and structural anthropology. The best known of his
many books are Tristes Tropiques, The Savage Mind, and Myth and
Meaning.
Emmanuel DÉsveaux is a director of studies at the École des hautes
Études en sciences sociales.
Robert Bononno has translated fiction and nonfiction, including
RenÉ Crevel’s My Body and I (a finalist for the French-American
Foundation Prize) and works by Michel Foucault, Henri Lefebvre,
Albert Memmi, and Isabelle Stengers published by the University of
Minnesota Press.
Peter Skafish is visiting assistant professor of anthropology at
University of California, Berkeley. He is editor and translator of
Cannibal Metaphysics by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
(Univocal/Minnesota, 2014).
"To learn from such a guileless mind, perhaps we have to reverse background and figure in the already inverted approach to reading applied to philosophers by looking for the answers rather than the questions-for statements so transparent that they become enigmas upon scrutiny-and then find or imagine their missing interrogative mates."-Peter Skafish, from the Introduction
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