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The Naked Man
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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 stori…
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- Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Year: 1990
- ISBN-10: 0226474968
- ISBN-13: 9780226474960
- Format: 13.5 x 20.5 x 3.7 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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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 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 QuireEXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
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- Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Year: 1990
- ISBN-10: 0226474968
- ISBN-13: 9780226474960
- Format: 13.5 x 20.5 x 3.7 cm, softcover
- Language: English 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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