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Original Language: French
"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
"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
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Original Language: French
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In the course of the previous volume (OTM, pp. 200, 252, 305), it became evident that the South American myth concerning the bird-nester and the North American one featuring the wives of the sun and moon belong to one and the same transformation group. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lewd grandmother, susceptible ferryman, porcupine episode, old blind women, grandmother cycle, vertical disjunction, trickster demiurge, dioscuric pair, helpful spiders, mucus boy, mythic series, salmon episode, alimentary level, incestuous sister, artificial sons, two blind women, constructive fire, blind old women, chthonian world, astronomical connotation, reciprocal theft, transformational group, etiological function, celestial people, meteorological function Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North American, South American, Puget Sound, Coast Salish, Columbia River, Klamath Lake, Grizzly Woman, Mount Shasta, Bella Coola, Fraser River, Sun Woman, The Dalles, Vancouver Island, Crater Lake, New World, Central Brazil, Pit River, Thompson Indians, Bear Woman, Great Lakes, Tule Lake, Cascade Range, Hudson Bay, Plateau Salish, Ancient World New!
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In the course of the previous volume (OTM, pp. 200, 252, 305), it became evident that the South American myth concerning the bird-nester and the North American one featuring the wives of the sun and moon belong to one and the same transformation group. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lewd grandmother, susceptible ferryman, porcupine episode, old blind women, grandmother cycle, vertical disjunction, trickster demiurge, dioscuric pair, helpful spiders, mucus boy, mythic series, salmon episode, alimentary level, incestuous sister, artificial sons, two blind women, constructive fire, blind old women, chthonian world, astronomical connotation, reciprocal theft, transformational group, etiological function, celestial people, meteorological function Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North American, South American, Puget Sound, Coast Salish, Columbia River, Klamath Lake, Grizzly Woman, Mount Shasta, Bella Coola, Fraser River, Sun Woman, The Dalles, Vancouver Island, Crater Lake, New World, Central Brazil, Pit River, Thompson Indians, Bear Woman, Great Lakes, Tule Lake, Cascade Range, Hudson Bay, Plateau Salish, Ancient World New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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