{"product_id":"the-naked-man-claude-lvi-strauss-9780226474960","title":"The Naked Man: Mythologiques, Volume 4","description":"\"\u003ci\u003eThe Naked Man \u003c\/i\u003eis the fourth and final volume [of \u003ci\u003eMythologiques\u003c\/i\u003e], 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, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The culmination of one of the major intellectual feats of our time.\"--Paul Stuewe, \u003ci\u003eQuill and Quire \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claude L騅i-Strauss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226474968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226474960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.31w x 1.45d","brand":"Claude L騅i-Strauss","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946343497983,"sku":"9780226474960","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d4ba0989-306b-48f6-80f0-91d8d0d5e3c3.jpg?v=1681512609","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-naked-man-claude-lvi-strauss-9780226474960","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}