Introducing Levi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of Levi-Strauss thought, from his early work on the function of the incest taboo to initiate an exchange of women between groups, to his identification of a timeless wild or primitive mode of thinking - a pensee sauvage - behind the processes of human culture.