| The Naked Man: Mythologiques, Volume 4 Univ of Chicago Edition Contributor(s): Lévi-Strauss, Claude (Author), Weightman, John (Translator), Weightman, Doreen (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0226474968 ISBN-13: 9780226474960 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $45.54 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1990 Annotation: ""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 " |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 398.042 |
| LCCN: 90011229 |
| Series: Mythologiques Series |
| Physical Information: 1.45" H x 5.31" W x 8.08" (1.68 lbs) 746 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |