The Naked Man: Mythologiques, Volume 4

By Claude Lévi-Strauss

Book Overview

"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 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."-Library Journal

"The culmination of one of the major intellectual feats of our time."-Paul Stuewe, Quill and Quire

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226474968
• ISBN13: 9780226474960
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 746 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.3" x 8.1"