The Naked Man (v. 4) (Introduction to a Science of Mythology) - Hardcover

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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9780224015356: The Naked Man (v. 4) (Introduction to a Science of Mythology)

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ISBN 10: 0224015354 ISBN 13: 9780224015356

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1981

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The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume [of Mythologiques], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time. . . . Myths from North and South America are set side by side to show their transformations: in passing from person to person and place to place, a myth can change its content and yet retain its structural principles. . . . Apart from the complicated transformations discovered and the fascinating constructions placed on these, the stories themselves provide a feast Betty Abel, Contemporary Review "Levi-Strauss uses the structural method he developed to analyze and 'decode' the mythology of native North Americans, focusing on the area west of the Rockies. . . . [The author] takes the opportunity to refute arguments against his method; his chapter 'Finale' is a defense of structural analysis as well as the closing statement of this four-volume opus which started with an 'Ouverture' in The Raw and the Cooked" Library Journal "The culmination of one of the major intellectual feats of our time" Paul Stuewe, Quill and Quire

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