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The Naked Man

"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

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 746
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780226474960
  • Genres
  • anthropology, mythology
  • Release date
  • 1990