The Scope of Anthropology Claude Lévi-Strauss Translated from the French by Sherry Ortner Paul and Robert A. Paul JONATHAN CAPE et THIRTY BEDFORD SQUARE LONDON Available in the United States from Grossman Publishers, Inc,First published in Great Britain 1967 by Jonathan Cape Ltd, 30 Bedford Square, London wet Reprinted 1968, 1969, 1971 Translated from the French Legon Inaugurale This translation © 1967 by Jonathan Cape Ltd, with acknowledgements to the Editor, Current Anthropology, vol. 7, no. 2 CAPE Paperback edition ISBN 0 224 61271 9 Hardback edition rsBN 0 224 61277 8 GROSSMAN Paperback edition sBN 670-62263-X Hardback edition sBN 670 62262-1 Lece 6855829 Condition of Sale This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd Bungay, SuffolkThe Scope of Anthropology