The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1

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University of Chicago Press, Mar 15, 1983 - Religion - 387 pages
"Lévi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom . . . a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments. . . . [The Raw and the Cooked] adds yet another chapter to the tireless quest for a scientifically accurate, esthetically viable, and philosophically relevant cultural anthropology. . . . [It is] indispensable reading."—Natural History
 

Contents

Illustrations
9
Overture I
10
Bororo Song
35
Ge Variations
66
The Good Manners Sonata
81
A Short Symphony
134
Fugue of the Five Senses
147
The Oppossums Cantata
164
Toccata and Fugue
240
Chromatic Piece
256
PART FIVE
283
Bird Chorus
300
The Wedding
319
Bibliography
361
Index of Myths
371
General Index
378

ThreePart Inventions
199
Double Inverted Canon
216
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (1983)

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) is the most important anthropologist of the twentieth century, a leader in structuralist thought, and one of the key figures in the history of modern thought. He held the chair of social anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982 and was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973. His many influential works include Tristes Tropiques, Structural Anthropology, Totemism, and Wild Thought, among others. The Press has published many English editions of his works.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1
Harper torchbooks
Volume 1 of Introduction to a science of mythology, Claude Lévi-Strauss
Volume 1 of Mythologiques / Claude Lévi-Strauss
Volume 1 of Mythologiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss
Volume 1 of Raw & the Cooked
AuthorClaude Lévi-Strauss
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press, 1983
ISBN0226474879, 9780226474878
Length387 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Religion / General
Religion / Indigenous, Folk & Tribal
Social Science / Anthropology / General
Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
Social Science / General
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Sociology of Religion
  
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