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The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1
Analyzes the myths concerning cooked food, the seasons, water, the stars, and other subjects in the culture of the Bororo Indians of Brazil
The Origin of Table Manners: Mythologiques, Volume 3
"The Origin of Table Manners is the third volume of a tetralogy devoted to American Indian mythology. Unlike the first two volumes (The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes), …
The Jealous Potter
As Lévi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with …
The Story of Lynx
"In olden days, in a village peopled by animal creatures, lived Wild Cat (another name for Lynx). He was old and mangy, and he was constantly scratching himself with his cane. From …
The View from Afar
This collection touches on a wide range of anthropological issues, including family and marriage, myths, and rites, the environment and its representation, and constraint and …
The Naked Man: Mythologiques, Volume 4
"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 …
Wild Thought
As the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Levi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought. Through a mixture of insights …
Wild Thought
Perhaps the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Levi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought, equal to that of …
Structural Anthropology, Volume 2
The eighteen essays collected in this volume have been selected and ordered to give what L vi-Strauss terms "a bird's-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology." As …