How long does it take to read Structural Anthropology?
Structural Anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss takes about 8 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 5 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1900. 441 pages, about 121,275 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 33 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Lévi-Strauss is not only one of the extremely few scholars of sufficient distinction to be able to say, without presumption, what social anthropology is about; but he has also actually demonstrated...that he is pre-eminently worth listening to. He does not simply practice social anthropology, he makes exciting and original contributions to it. This book provides an introduction to his distinctive approach to anthropology as the study of a science of general principles. The now renowned "structural method," which has changed the face of social anthropology, views man and society in terms of universals--kinship, social organization, religion and mythology, and art.
Subjects: Anthropology, Ethnologie, Ethnology, Structural anthropology, Anthropologie Structurelle, Anthropologie structurale
