"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."â€”Betty Abel, Contemporary Review"LÃ©vi-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."â€”Library Journal"The culmination of one of the major intellectual feats of our time."â€”Paul Stuewe, Quill and Quire

The Naked Man: Introduction to a Science of Mythology, Vol. 4

Politics & Social Sciences

LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude

Anthropology

Harper&Row

The Origin of Table Manners: Introduction to a Science of Mythology, Vol. 3

Social Sciences

Harper

Text: English, French (translation)

From Honey to Ashes: Introduction to a Science of Mythology/Volume 2

"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), which are devoted to South American myths, the present one establishes relations with North America, which is the subject of the fourth (The Naked Man). . . . In the course of the analysis, the myths link up with ideas of more general interest. Thus, we find discussions of numeration, of morals, and of the origin of the novel. . . . The Origin of Table Manners is thus of special interest to students of American Indian mythology, although it contains ideas of interest to other fields and even to the general reader."â€”Daniel C. Raffalovich, American Anthropologist "An immense anthropological erudition is here wielded by one of the world's finest minds, and the myths themselves have never been taken more seriously. . . . [LÃ©vi-Strauss] raises issues and then resolves them with the suspenseful cunning of a mystery novelist."â€”John Updike, New Yorker

The Origin of Table Manners

HarperCollins, Publishers

Structuralism applied to the study of myths from the father of structuralism, Claude Levi-Strauss

From Honey to Ashes : An Introduction to a Science of Mythology

The Raw and the Cooked (Introduction to a Science of Mythology) (Paperback)

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

Harper-Torchbooks

"A magical masterpiece."—Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression."

Tristes Tropiques

History

Americas

Penguin

Penguin Peregrine

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 freedom. The essays encompass more than forty years of analysis and constrain arguments that are as relevant today as they were thirty years ago."Hardly a field remains untouched—sociobiology, linguistics, botany, genetics, psychiatry, esthetics, ecology, politics, neuroscience, education, morality, psychology. . . . It's all breathtaking and alarming, some of it wonderful, some of it ridiculous. . . . At times the experience is exhilarating."—Richard A. Shweder, New York Times Book Review

The View from Afar

Peregrine

"Tristes Tropiques" begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. His account of the people he encountered changed the field of anthropology, transforming Western notions of 'primitive' man. "Tristes Tropiques" is a major work of art as well as of scholarship. It is a memoir of exquisite beauty and a masterpiece of travel writing: funny, discursive, movingly detailing personal and cultural loss, and brilliantly connecting disparate fields of thought. Few books have had as powerful and broad an impact.

Claude Levi-Strauss Tristes tropiques (Penguin Modern Classics) /anglais

Penguin Uk

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The Naked Man: Introduction to a Science of Mythology, Vol. 4

The Origin of Table Manners: Introduction to a Science of Mythology, Vol. 3

From Honey to Ashes: Introduction to a Science of Mythology/Volume 2

The Origin of Table Manners

From Honey to Ashes : An Introduction to a Science of Mythology

The Raw and the Cooked (Introduction to a Science of Mythology) (Paperback)

Tristes Tropiques

Tristes Tropiques

The View from Afar

Claude Levi-Strauss Tristes tropiques (Penguin Modern Classics) /anglais