The Naked Man: Mythologiques, Volume 4 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226474960)

"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

"L騅i-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

Author: Claude L騅i-Strauss
ISBN-10: 0226474968
ISBN-13: 9780226474960
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 11/08/1990
Pages: 746
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.68lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.31w x 1.45d