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The Naked Man: Mythologiques, Volume 4

The Naked Man: Mythologiques, Volume 4

Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Weightman, John
Weightman, Doreen

Paperback

Series: Mythologiques Series, Book 4

AnthropologyMythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 0226474968
ISBN13: 9780226474960
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Nov 8 1990
Pages: 746
Weight: 1.68
Height: 1.45 Width: 5.31 Depth: 8.08
Language: English
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

Lévi-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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